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NARRAGANSETT 

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TO THE 

Cities. Towns and Fains Resorts of lode Island. 



WITH A SKETCH OF THE 



CITY OF FALL RIVER, MASS. 



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Bv ROBERT GRIEVE. 



PROVIDENCE, R. I. : 

J. A. k \: R. A. Reid, Printers and Publishers, 24 Custom House Street. 

Rhode Island News Co., 113 Westminster Street. 



60552 

PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 



SHORE TRANSPORTATION 




STEAMBOAT COl 

THE NEW, ELEGANT, AND COMMODIOUS STEAMERS 




WILL MAKE HOURLY EXCURSIONS DAILY TO 

Field's Point, Silver Spring, KiverView Par 
Riverside, Camp White, Bullock's Point, 
and Crescent Park. 



TO THK^ F^IJBr^IO. 



For the season of 1888 we offer inducements for 
your patronage that cannot be excelled elsewhere 
in this vicinity. We have completed 

TWO NEW BOATS, 

Built of Steel, 
Especially for this route, with water tight compart- 
mentSi making them 

NON-SINKABLE. 

Kach boat has three decks, with ample stairways of 
eaay ascent. The boilers are inclosed with iron on all 
deek-, thus 

Preventing All Danger from Fire. 
Positively making them .non-sinkable and fireproof 
Commanded by competent officers of many years 1 ex- 
perience. 

LADIES AND CHILDREN 

may safely venture on any of our trips without an 
escort, all employees being Instructed to give them 
prompt and polite attention, and guard them from all 
danger and annoyance. 



^"*For the arrival and departure of Boats, see Daily Pa] 

Depots, News 



Four attention is also called to the 

NEW WAITING ROOM 

and the extensive improvements and alteratii 
our wharf on 

EAST SIDE OF CRAWFORD ST. BRIDGc, 

directly fronting; three clean, wide avenues, thereby 
avoiding all dust and dirt, risk from accident, or de- 
tention to and from boats. Two minutes' walk from 
the Union Home-car Station, and in close prox- 
imity to all the large stores, depots, hotels, and places 
of interest. In fact, affording every accommodation 
to the traveling public for 

Speed, Safety and Comfort. 

Yours respectfully, 

GEO. B. HULL, Manager. 

jers and our Time-tables, to be found in all the Hotels' 
Stands, Etc 



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IN PRESENTING A NEW EDITION OF PICTUR- 
ESQUE NARRAGANSETT, WE OFFER NO APOL- 
OGY. THE UNDOUBTED EXCELLENCE OF THE 
WORK, AMPLE WITHOUT BEING TRIVIAL IN ITS 
DETAILS, ACCURATE, BUT NEITHER DULL NOR 
DRY, THOROUGH BOTH AS TO HISTORY -AND 
DESCRIPTIVE MATTER, WITH THE LENGTH OF 
TIME WHICH HAS ELAPSED SINCE THE ISSUE 
OF THE LAST EDITION, IS SUFFICIENT REASON 
FOR A REPUBLICATION. THE TEXT HAS BEEN 
CAREFULLY REVISED, AND ITS MANY PEN- 
SKETCHES VERIFIED AND CONFORMED TO 
THE MOST RECENT CHANGES AND IMPROVE- 
MENTS. SPECIAL CARE HAS BEEN GIVEN TO 
THE MANUFACTURING AND BUSINESS INTER- 
ESTS. WE TRUST THE GUIDE MAY PROVE A 
SOURCE OF PLEASURE AND PROFIT TO BOTH 
THE CITIZEN AND THE INQUIRING STRANGER. 



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OAI£ MM D 1MCH 



THE EDEN OF NARRAGANSETT BAY! 

OPEN FOR THE SEASON OF 1888 UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT. SPECIAL INDUCE- 
MENTS FOR LARGE PARTIES AND ORGANIZATIONS. 

GENUINE RHODE ISLAND CLAM-BAKES SERVED DAILY. 
Trains from Providence Nearly Every Hour. 

jr.. GARDINER, O. H. BRIGGS, 
Supt. Gen'l Pass. Agt. 







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EDMUND CARPENTER, 

EASTERN, WESTERN AND 

HARDWOOD LUMBER 



270 DYER STREET, PROVIDENCE, R. I. 



CONTENTS. 



Providence, 

Pawtccket and Lincoln, 

Lincoln, 

Woonsocket, 

Along Shore : 

Narragansett Bay, 

East Providence, 

Field's Point, 

Squantum, 

Vue De L'Eau, 

Silver Spring, 

Maxfield's, 

Pomham Club, 

Riverside, 

Bullock's Point, 

Crescent Park, 

Pawtuxet, 

Barrington — Nayatt 

Warren, 

Bristol, 

The Warwick Shore, 

Old Warwick, 

Warwick Neck, 

Rocky Point, 

Oakland Beach, 

The Buttonwoods, 

Apponaug, 

East Greenwich, 

Wickford, 

Conanicut Island, Jamestow 

The Islands, 

Fall River, 

Seaconnet Point, 

Newport, 
The South County : 

Westerly, 

Narragansett Pier, 

Peacedale, 

Watch Hill, 

Noyes' Beach, 
Block Island, 
Hotel List, . 
Tide Tables, 

List of Newport Cottagers, 18I 
Strangers' Guides:. 

Providence, 

Pawtucket, 

Woonsocket, 

Newport, 



104 
104 
105 
106 
106 
106 
106 
107 
108 
108 
10S 
1C9 
in 
112 
116 
120 
120 
120 
122 
124 
124 
124 
127 
127 
129 
132 
134 
i35 

162 
166 
176 
176 
178 
1S1 
191 
161 
159 

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90 
100 
157 



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Silver Spring. 

H. P. BXI.SS t Proprietor, 

Open from June 20th until Sept. 20th. 
Shore Dinners Served from 12.30 till 5 P. M. each day. 

EXCEPT SUNDAY. 

JBo^vx'liny; ^Vllt->- sincl 13illiai-cl Room. 

Communication by Two Lines of Boats and by Providence, Warren & Bristol Railroad. 






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B> --\i tii i l, Picturesque Silver Spring ! Language has been exhausted 
in expressing its attractions. Its distant and near views of landscape and 
water, city and village, are beyond comparison. The spires and 
domes of Providence across the water to the northwest, Rocky 
Point to the south, and intervening shores of wondrous 
beauty, all along the line of vision. 
But its chief attraction is the method by which it is conducted. Its quiet Sun- 
days enjoyed by boarders and cottagers, and the morale of its week- 
day atmosphere give it a standing of which no other 
place of its kind can boast. 



List of Illustrations. 



Blackstone River at Lonsdale 

Block Island : 

Ocean House and Harbor 

Spring House 

Scenes on Block Island .' 

Bolt Cutting Machine 

Bristol from the Harbor 

Bristol, View on High Street 

Bristol, Burnside Memorial Building 

Buttonwoods Beach 

Central Falls, from Pleasant View 

Fall River : 

View from the High School 

B. M. C. Durfee, High School 

View of, from the Harbor . . 

Field's Point 

Fort Dumplings 

Lonsdale, View of 

Nayatt Point 

Narragansett Pier : 

Atlantic House and Continental — 

Atwood House and Revere 

Bathing Scene — Indian Rock 

General View of Ocean Frontage 

Gladstone and Casino 

Massasoit House 

Mathewson House 

Newport : 

Beach, Easton's 

Bellevue Ave. During Fashionable Hours.. 

Bellevue Avenue and the Ocean House 

Bird's-eye view of 

Casino 

Cliff Walk 

Custom House and Post Office 

Fort Adams 

Forty Steps 

Glen.The 

Happy Valley 

Land's End 

Lime Rocks and Light, Newport Harbor . 

Lime Rock Light 

Marquand's Cottage 

Old Stone Mill 

Perry, Commodore O. H., statue 

Purgatory 

Redwood Library 



First Light Infantry Building. 
Friend's School 



names Street 

View of, from the Harbor 

Washington Square 

Old Quaker Meeting House, Lincoln 

Oakland Beach 

"AWTUCKET : 

Congregational Church 

Main Street 

North Main Street, View of 

Old Slater Mill 

Park Place Congregational Church 

Pumping Station , 

Pawtucket Falls, 1783 

Pawtucket Falls, 1886 

Pawtucket Machine Company's Works.... 

Trinity Church 

Univei-salist Church 

View of, from below Division Street Bridge 
View of, from belfry of Congregational C'h 
Providence : 

Aldine Patent Fire Place 

Athenaeum 

American Electrical Works 

American Ship Windlass Company's Works 

Arnold, Miller & Co.'s Emporium 

Arsenal 

Austin, John, Refining Works 

Betsey Williams House, R. W. Park 

Board of Trade Building 

Brown University 

Burnside Statue 

Chestnut Street M. E. Church 

City Hall 

County Court House 

Crystal Lake, Roger Williams Park 

Dorr Mansion 

Exchange Place 

Fire in Daniel's Building 

First Baptist Meeting-House 



Goddard, Col. R. H. I . , Residence of 

Great Bridge and Westminster Street 

Great Fire of 1888 

Great Storm of 1815 

Greene Engine 

High School 

Historical Society's Cabinet 

Homoeopathic Hospital 

Knight, B. B., Residence of, Broad Street. 

Lippitt Mansion, Hope Street 

Market Square in 1844 

Market Square and South Water Street 

Masonic Building 

McAuslan, John, Residence of 

Narragansett Hotel 

Nicholson File Works 

Providence, Norfolk, and Baltimore Steam- 
ship Company's Docks and Yards 

Rhode Island Hospital 

Rumford Chemical Works, Office, and 
Warehouse 

Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument 

State House 

St. John's Episcopal Church 

View of Providence from the Harbor 

From frospect Terrace 

From Smith's Hill in 1888 

Weybosset Street looking towards West- 
minster 

Young Men's Christian Association's pro- 
posed new Building 

Rocky Point 

Silver Spring 

Sound Boat, A 

Squantum 

Vuede L'Eau Club House 

Warren, from the Harbor 

Warren, View on Main Street 

Watch Hill and its Hotels 

Westerly : 

Broad Street and Dixon House 

The town and the Pawcatuck River 

Congregational Church 

Seventh Day Baptist Church 

Wickford's Shore, View of 

Woonsocket: 

Blackstone River and some of the factories 

High School .. 

Main Street from Railroad 

Market Square 

Monument Square 

The Falls 

View of the town from the East 

PORTRAITS. 



Atwell, Col. S. S 102 

Austin, John 41 

Bliss, H. P 107 

Boyden, George Ill 

Bowen, Capt. Ezra 106 

Clark, Capt. A. M KM 

Conley, G. W 104 

Crosby, Capt l->4 

Grosvenor, Dr. William 37 

Havward, Wm. S 28 

Hill, Thomas J 38 

Hopkins, William H 40 

Jones, Capt. Wm 61 

Kelley, Capt. George H 102 

Klapp, Lvman 37 

Knight, B. B 40 

Kilton.Geo. A 61 

Maxfleld, Hiram 10o 

Mott, Capt. Jesse 105 

Nicholson, William T 44 

Petty. Capt. J. A 103 

Rhodes, Capt. S. B 109 

Rice, Fitz James 34 

Rockwell, Col. Elisha H 28 

Taylor, Capt. J. P.... 109 

Tinkham, William 34 

W eaver, John G 140 

Wigrhtman, Capt. P. W Ilfl 

Winslow, Capt. William 101 



Part First. 



CHAPTER I. 

REPRESENTATIVE CITY HISTORY AND GROWTH POINTS OF INTEREST APPEARANCE 

AND CHARACTER COMMERCE AND MANUFACTURES GENERAL FEATURES. 



The chief city in 
an active community of 
moi - e than five hundred 
thousand people with- 
in and near the state 
lines of Rhode Island, 
peculiarly fortunate in 
location, and the sec- 
ond in importance 
among the famous cit- 
ies of New England, 
Providence has attained 
a fame world-wide as 
an enterprising manu- 
facturing and commer- 
cial centre. Its indus- 
tries are great in num- 
ber and diversified in 
character. Its growth 
and expansion in 
wealth and population 
in recent years has 
been constant. Since 
the close of the Rebel- 
lion it has more than 
doubled in population, 
and the Providence of 
to-day is quite different 
from the city of that 
time. Then it seemed a 
large town with rather 
weybosset street, looking towards Westminster. provincial character- 

istics ; now it is really a modern city with much of a cosmopolitan appearance. 
This progress has been accompanied by the development of its manufactures 




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in all lines, by the formation of a magnifi- 
cent school system, by the establishment of 
libraries, the laving out of parks, increased 
opportunities in all directions for literary 
and artistic culture, and with other widen- 
ing avenues for intellectual, moral, and 
material advancement. 

Located at the head of navigation on the 
northwestern arm of Narragansett Bay, the 
city is built in the valleys of the Moshas- 
suck and Woonasquatucket rivers, and on 
the adjacent hills to the north, east, and 
west, which rise from the confluence of 
these rivers with the arm of the bay known 
as the Providence River. On the east of 
the Providence River the hills rise almost 
from the water's edge to an altitude of about 
two hundred feet at the highest point, fall- 
ing away by a more gradual descent east- 
ward to the Seekonk River, a mile distant. 
On the west side much of the land origin- 
ally was low and was overflowed by every 
rise of the tide, but beyond this marsh to 
the west the land rose abruptly fifty to sev- 
enty feet high, spreading out into a large 
plateau extending west and south which is 
now nearly all occupied by business blocks 
and residences to the western and southern 
limits of the city. The steep western ele- 
vations having been graded to a gently in- 
clined plane, the lower level nearest the 
river naturally became the business centre 
of the city, while the higher levels to the 
east and the northern and western plateaus 
have been mostly appropriated for house- 
lots for mansions and dwellings. 

The first chapter of the history of Prov- 
idence is very romantic. Roger Williams, 
a clergyman, with five or six companions, 
settled on the eastern bank of the river in 
the spring of 1636, and named the place 
" Providence," because he considered the 
u supreme deliverer " had guided their se- 
lection. Previous to this Roger Williams 
had preached in Plymouth and Massachu- 
setts Bay colonies, but had been tried and 



i2 PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 

found guilty of holding certain opinions distasteful to the leaders of the latter 
colonv. To avoid being sent back to England he fled to the wilderness, and 
in the course of a few months settled Providence, in whose institutions he 
caused to be embodied the principle of the right of private judgment — " soul 
liberty," as he called it — for which he had contended and suffered in Massa- 
chusetts. The spirit thus infused by the founder has always continued as a 
leading characteristic of the people, and although at times it has degenerated 
into indifference, as a whole it has been a broad and intelligent toleration. 
Roger Williams has been given a high place in the temple of fame as being 
the first to apply in practice one of the highest conceptions of free government. 
In 1649 Providence was incorporated as a town ; in 1708 the population 
was 1 ,446 ; in 1800, 7,614, and since that period the growth has been continuous. 
In 1 S3 2 it was incorporated as a city, and had then a population of about 
eighteen thousand. The population in 1885 was 118,070. Portions of Crans- 
ton were annexed to Providence in 1868 and 1873, and portions of North Prov- 
idence in 1767, 1873, and 1874. The annexations since 1S68 have brought in 
large additions to the city's population. The growth of the city has been 
mainly owing to the development of the cotton industry, which was introduced 
by Samuel Slater in 1793 at Pawtucket, but Providence being the natural centre 
of operations became the depot of supplies, and many auxiliary industries 
grew up within her borders, such as the making of machinery, engines and mill 
supplies of all kinds. The factories on all the streams in the state and on some 
in adjacent territory had their offices in Providence and made all their commer- 




PROVIDENCE 




THE GREAT BRIDGE AND WESTMINSTER STREET. 



cial exchanges there. Coincident with the development of the cotton manufact- 
ure the woolen industry grew and flourished, and at present amounts to about 
one-third of the former in capital invested and extent of business. 

Many of the places of historic interest in Providence are connected with 
Roger Williams. One of the most interesting of these is Slate Rock, at the 
foot of William Street, on the east side of the city, from which, tradition says, 
an Indian greeted the pioneer and his companions with the salutation " What 
Cheer," as they were passing in their canoe along the bank of the Seekonk, 
and the story has been held in such respect that the scene is depicted on the 
city's seal. Near the western entrance to Roger Williams Park is a small 
enclosure containing the graves of some of the early members of the Williams 
family, and overlooking the lake is the Betsey Williams House, built about 
the middle of the last century. 

No monument marks the grave of the founder of these plantations ; in the 
rear of a barn, on the hillside on Bowen Street, the spot where he is said to 
have been interred is now a kitchen garden. The spring of water that induced 
the first settlers to land, around which they built their first rude houses, and 
which was in use until the middle years of this century cannot now be located 
without more research than the passing traveler can spare. The historical 
points of undoubted authenticity are few. The location of the camp of the 
French allies of the American patriots in the Revolution, on the heights at the 
extremity of Camp Street, is quite definitely known ; the remains of Revo- 



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PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 



lutionary fortifications at Fort Hill, 
East Providence, and on the 
heights at Field's Point can yet be 
readily traced, and Sabin's Inn, on 
the northeast corner of Planet and 
South Main streets, where the plans 
for the capture of the Gaspee were 
laid at the time of the Revolution, 
is still standing and in use as a 
dwelling-house. The oldest build- 
ing in the city is supposed to be the 
Whipple house, on Abbott Street 
near North Main, said to have been 
built about 1659. A more note- 
worthy structure, however, is the 
old brick house at Nos. 537 and 
539 North Main Street, which was 
built by Deputy-Governor Elisha 
Brown about 1760, and was orig- 
inally a third longer than at pres- 
ent. The Tillinghast house, cor- 
ner of South Main Street and Chick- 
enfoot Alley was erected in 1710. 
Stephen Hopkins' house built about 
1750, was moved early in the cen- 
tury to its present location on 
Hopkins Street. All of these 
houses are stijl in use, although some of them have been altered from their orig- 
inal form. The John Brown house on the southeast corner of Power and 
Benefit streets, built in 1786, and at present the residence of Professor William 
Gammell, is a good specimen of the architecture of that period, as is also the 
brick building on the southwest corner of Elizabeth and North Main streets, 
.vhich was built about the same time. 

A number of public buildings date back to those early years, among them 
being the State House, built in 1759; the Friends' Meeting- House, a plain 
wooden edifice adjoining the State House on North Main Street, built in 1727 ; 
the Board of Trade Building, Market Square, erected as a public market in 1773, 
and since altered several times. The First Baptist Church on North Main 
Street, erected in 1775, is still one of the most beautiful ecclesiastical edifices in 
the city. University Hall, the middle building of Brown University fronting 
the campus on Prospect Street, was built in 1770. 

Located upon the original Roger Williams home lot, southeast corner of 
Bowen and Benefit streets, stands a substantial, old-fashioned, but beautiful 
house, known as the Sullivan Dorr Mansion, within whose walls Thomas W. 
Dorr, the leader of the Dorr Rebellion, died. The reputed grave of Roger 
Williams was in the garden plat to the east of the house. 




IRST BAPTIST MEETING-HOUSE, 
On North Main Street. 



PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 




There are many other buildings and 
places, especially on the east side, about 
which traditions of the past linger, but 
the old landmarks are rapidly passing 
away, and less attention is paid to the 
preservation of the knowledge of the 
memorials of the past than is creditable. 
In the city of to-day there is much 
to interest and instruct the visitor. ■ Of 
late years great improvements have been 
made by replacing old-fashioned, low 
wooden structures with substantial and 
handsome edifices of brick, stone and 
iron. Within the past year this form 
of improvement has been more notice- 
able than ever before, a large number 
new buildings having been erected on 
e principal streets, and a number of 
e buildings which formerly were con- 
lered among the best in the city have 
been remodeled and improved vastly in 
ppearance. These improvements have 
been made chiefly on Westminster Street, 
e main artery of the business of the 
city. The entire city is usually kept in 
e condition ; its drainage is good, its 
eets are well paved, clean, well 
ghted, and many of them lined with 
ees, forming in summer beautiful ave- 
ues, and altogether, it is a delightful 
ding place, beloved by its inhabit- 
ants, admired by strangers, and a place 
be desired as a home. 

On account of its rivers Prov- 
idence has many bridges, there 
being thirty-eight in all. Some of 
the largest of these, however, are 
over the railoads, which enter the 
city along the lines of the river 
valleys, and over which streets are 
carried from hill to hill. The best 
known of the bridges are those 
connecting the east and west sides 
of the Providence River, namely, 
■ Great Bridge, 1 60 feet wide, Craw- 
ford Street Bridge, and the Point 
Street Bridge, the last a fine struct- 
ure with a draw for the passage of 
vessels. Providence and East 



PROVIDENCE. 




P i!l tS 



Providence are con- 
nected by two fine 
bridges over the 
Seekonk, namely, 
the Red Bridge and 
the new Washing- 
ton Bridge, the lat- 
ter the largest in 
the state, and both 
have draws to al- 
low the passage of 
vessels to and from 
Pawtncket. 

The city is noted 
for its excellent 
horse-car system. 
All the lines are 
owned and operat- 
ed by the Union 
Railway Company, 
and they start from 
a common centre, 
the Great Bridge, 
at the foot of West- 
minster Street, and 
traverse the city 
from that point in 

all directions. By means of these lines every locality in the city and immediate 
vicinity can easily be reached. The views obtained from the cars on many ot 
the routes are of a continual succession of pleasant residences, some embowered 
in trees, or with well-kept lawns, some of elegant architecture, and many unpre- 
tentious homes, all contributing to the harmony of the scene. Many of the 
streets through which the cars run are lined with tiees, and the effect in sum- 
mer is very beautiful. The entire length of track in the city is fifty-four miles, 
number of cars, 275, and the routes fifteen. 

Providence is an important railroad centre. Six roads enter the city, all 
but one of which are directly connected elsewhere at important points with the 
railroad system of the country, and they have connecting branches diverging 
from the main lines, thereby reaching nearly every village and hamlet in the 
state. The entire length of the lines in the state is "a fraction over 318 miles, 
averaging nearly one linear mile to every three square miles of territory. For 
years the terminal facilities in the city have been inadequate, and various at- 
tempts have been made through the city government to have them improved, 
but up to the present nothing practical has been effected. A committee of ex- 
pert engineers, appointed by Mayor Robbins in accordance with a resolution of 
the city council, made a report last April, and the probability is that their plan, 
or some modification of it, will be adopted. The outlook for increased facilities 







THE CITY HALL, EXCHANGE PLACE. 



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JBb-Mlfc 



THE BOARD OF TRADE BUILDING 
Market Square. 



^^^^^^^_^^^^^^^^^ and for a settlement of the vexed question of 
ijjl lll> proper accommodations, both for freight and 

passenger, is also rendered much more hopeful 
from the fact of the consolidation of the Boston 
& Providence Railroad with the Old Colony 
system last April, and of the Providence & 
Worcester with the New York, Providence & 
Boston Railroad early in May of this year. In- 
stead of the question brought up by the demands 
for better accommodations being divided by the 
interests of five or six corporations, these con- 
solidations simplify the matter very much by 
concentrating the business in the hands of not 
more than three, the Old Colony, the New 
York, Boston & Providence, and the New York 
& New England, and the rivalry, even although 
without malice, between these great concerns, 
will necessarily ensure vast improvements. 
The magnitude of the changes in comtemplation 
will necessitate a long time for their completion, and probably the new stations 
and approaches, even if the present plan is adopted, cannot be completed in 
less than two years. On account of the unsettled condition of affairs, and in 
view of the experience of the past, it cannot be assumed that the proposed plan 
will be put in execution in the shape in which it has been presented, and con- 
sequently a detailed account would be useless in this connection. One thing, 
however, is certain : the 
time has come for im- 
provements ; the rail- 
roads are prepared, the 
city is prepared, and the 
public are tired of the 
endless discussions, and 
are willing to accept any 
reasonable plan. 

In its facilities for com- 
merce by sea Providence 
has great advantages, 
which have, however, 
not been utilized in re- 
cent years as their im- 
portance demand. The 
Providence River at Fox 
Point and the Seekonk at 
India Point unite with 
the bay, there forming 
the harbor, which is a the state house, north main street. 




PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 




THE HOMCEOPATHIC HOSPITAL, PROVIDENCE. 



safe and commodious basin, inclosed from the winds by high bluffs on all sides, 
and from which there is a channel to the ocean through the bay, deep and wide 
enough for the largest vessels. There is, however, no foreign commerce worth 
mentioning. Only an occasional merchant vessel, with a stray consignment of 
goods arrives, whose appearance is such a rarity that a long newspaper article 
is usually written about each one. There are three important coastwise lines of 
steamers : the Providence and Stonington Steamship Line to New York ; the 
Providence, Norfolk and Baltimore Steamship Line, and the Winsor Line to 
Philadelphia, all of which have their wharves on the harbor, from Fox to India 
Point. There are three lines of steamers plying to places on the bay : the Fall 
River and Providence line, to Bristol and Fall River ; the Continental Steamboat 
Company, to Newport, Rocky Point, the shore places, and the islands ; and the 
Shore Transportation Company, to the east-side shore places. The George W. 
Danielson, a small, but seaworthy propeller, runs from Providence to Block 
Island during the winter ; in the summer it connects at Newport with the boats 
of the Continental Steamboat Company, and makes daily trips to Block Island. 
One of the boats of the Fall River and Providence line makes several trips a 



PROVIDENCE. 21 

week to Block Island, affording opportunity for a continuous passage and return 
in one day. A small steamer, the £hieen City, runs regularly to Seaconnet 
Point in the summer, making a round trip every day, and during the summer 
another small steamer also runs to the point. Besides these, a small freight 
steamer, the William Marvel, runs to Fall River. 

Rhode Island is a manufacturing state, and Providence the headquarters. 
A great proportion of the actual manufacturing is done within the city limits, and 
the business offices of all the large concerns with factories near or remote in the 
state, and even in adjoining districts in Connecticut and Massachusetts, are 
located here. The principal industries are the cotton and woolen manufact- 
ure. According to the state census for 18S5 — which, however, the superin- 
tendent says, on account of the failure to reply to his queries, does not fully 
show the extent of the business — the number of establishments engaged in 
the manufacture of cotton was 93, with an invested capital of $21,154,255, 
and a product for that year of $21,771,504 ; those engaged in the woolen man- 
ufacture were 34, with a capital of $8,568,450, and a product of $18,983,634. 




RESIDENCE OF B. B. KNIGHT, ESQ., BROAD STREET. 



PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 

rubber goods in Provi- 
dence, Bristol, and Woon- 
socket. The total amount 
of capital invested, accord- 
ing to census returns of 
1885, was $59,616,229, in 
2,393 establishments, em- 
ploying 71,695 persons, to 
whom were paid in wages 
$23,353,099; the materials 
used were valued at $48,- 
271,448, and the product 
for the year was $95,452,- 
0S5. 

The best points of obser- 
vation for a general view 
of the city, from its out- 
skirts, are the summit of 
Camp Street on the north- 
east, which gives a fine 
view of the whole city and 
a large area of its environs 
to the east and north ; from 
Mount Pleasant, northwest 
of Olnevville, the higrhest 




THE COUNTY COURT HOUSE, 
Corner of Benefit and College Streets 

Next in importance, judged by the 
amount of capital invested, are the 
print-works, followed in the order 
given, by metals and metallic 
goods, gas-works, machines and 
machinery, paper and paper 
goods, jewelry, building, silver- 
ware, rubber and elastic goods. 
The cotton factories are located 
on the rivers of the state, as are 
also the woolen factories, but a 
number of the former and a large 
proportion of the latter, are in the 
city and immediate vicinity. 
Metals and metallic goods and 
machines and machinery are man- 
ufactured chiefly in Providence 
and Pawtucket, paper in Paw- 
tucket and East Providence, jew- 
elry and silverware in Providence, 




THE SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' MONUMENT, 
Exchange Place, 



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RESIDENCE OF JOHN McAUSLAN, ESQ. 



point in that section, where an excellent view of the east and west sides and 
far down the harbor and bay may be obtained, and from Mount Neutaconkanut, 
near the southwest city line, in Johnston, which, though one of the least known 
and visited, is really one of the finest points from which to overlook the entire 
city and its surroundings, and secure splendid views, especially at a fair sunset 
hour. This elevation is said to be 296 feet above the sea level at its highest 
point. All of these "outlooks" can be readily reached by the horse-cars; 
Camp Street summit and Mount Pleasant by the routes so named, and Mount 
Neutaconkanut by the Plainfield Street route. From the site of the old reform 
school, on Tockwotton Heights, overlooking the harbor, a fine view down the 
bay can be obtained, and when the city has laid out this spot as a park, as is 
contemplated, the beauty of the scene ought to make it a favorite " breathing" 
place. An easily accessible place from which the business portion of the city 
can be viewed is the top of the tower of the City Hall. This is open to the 
public, and visitors are expected to register their names. Since the opening 
of the building, in 1873, an average of about three thousand persons per year 



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have looked out on the city from this lofty place. The interior of the dome 
contains the batteries and apparatus for the city's fire alarm system, all of which 
are open to public inspection. 

The Public Parks in Providence are eighteen in number, the majority 
of which are small inclosures. Of these the most important is Roger Williams 
Park. Blackstone Park, on the east side of ihe city, is a wooded ravine of 
much natural beauty, extending from Butler Avenue to the Seekonk River. 
The Cove Promenade is a narrow strip of land, with trees and grass plots, 
which borders and surrounds the Cove, a circular, walled basin, about a mile in 
circumference, in the centre of the city. Dexter Training Ground, between 
Cranston and High streets, in the western part of the city, is an open lot deeded 
to the city many years ago, by Ebenezer Dexter, to be used as a training-field 
by the militia. It is now rarely used for this purpose, but it makes a very 
pleasant small park, and its surroundings are beautiful. 

Roger Williams Park is the people's popular place for public recreation. 
It is located on the southern border of the city adjoining Cranston, and is much 
the largest public park of the city, containing about one hundred and ten acres 
of land and water. This land was originally given by the great Indian sachems, 
Canonicus and Miantonomi, to Roger Williams in token of their good will and 
esteem for the founder of our state. It was bequeathed to the city by Betsey 
Williams (a direct descendant and heir of her great ancestor, Roger, in the sixth 
genei-ation) for a public park, and was accepted by the city in November, 1872, 




RESIDENCE OF COL. R. H. I. GODDARD, HOPE STREET. 



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THE ATHEN/EUM. 
Corner of Benefit and College Streets. 



on the condition that it should 
contain a statue of Roger'Wil- 
liams, and be called the "Roger 
Williams Park." A fine bronze 
statue of Roger Williams, stand- 
ing on a granite base, designed 
and executed by Franklin Sim- 
mons, sculptor, of Rome, was 
dedicated here October 16, 1S77, 
with imposing ceremonies and 
a very excellent and eloquent 
oration by Professor J. L Diman. 
This monument cost $22,000, 
and subsequently another granite 
monument to the memory of 
Betsey Williams was erected in 
the ancient Williams Cemetery, 
in the park, at a cost of $500 
The grounds of the park are 
artistically laid out with beautifully diversified walks and drives, smooth green 
lawns, turfy -slopes, and shady groves. Crystal Lake, flowing quite a large area 
of the park, is one of its chief beauties, and affords opportunities for rowing in 
summer, or skating in winter, that are largely taken advantage of by the young 

people of the city. Within the 
past year or two, the lake has 
been doubled in size by dig- 
ging out an adjacent marsh, 
and during the past winter 
and spring another large addi- 
tion has been made in the 
same manner, so that now the 
lake is in reality a chain of 
three separate bodies of water 
encircled by grassy banks and 
pleasant woods.. The graceful 
swans and other water-fowl 
on the lake, and groups of 
animals and birds about the 
grounds, the delightful shady 
nooks and quiet rural re- 
treats, and the additional at- 
tractions that are constantly 
added, have greatly advanced 
the park in the public favor, 
and it now has more visitors 
high school summer and pond streets. and admirers than ever be- 




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LAKE, AT ROGER WILLIAMS PARK. 



fore. The ki What Cheer Cottage," the charming restaurant and resting-place 
at the park, will be conducted again this season by Mr. James W. Cooper, with 

every possible improvement to make it __ ___ -— — , 

pleasant and attractive to visitors and 
patrons, and sustain its high reputation. 

Prospect Terrace. — The finest 
point for the visitor to obtain a pano- j 
ramie view of the city is this elevated i 
and airy esplanade, located on Congdon ' 
Street. It is the most convenient, ac- 
cessible, and popular observatory, lo- 
cated near the centre of trade and travel. 
The citizen of Providence always takes 
his guest and guides the stranger to the 
" Terrace " with the feeling that there 
they can secure a more pleasing and 
satisfactory view of the city than from 
any other point within its boundaries. 
Directly in the foreground we look down 
upon a wilderness of roofs, far below 
us, out of which the stately spire of the 
First Baptist Church lifts itself against 
the sky. Farther away in the middle the betsey Williams house, 

Roger Williams Park. 




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ST. JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, NORTH MAiN STREET. 



distance to the right, are the sandy slopes of Smith's Hill. A little more to the 
left our line of vision crosses the Woonasquatucket valley, with its busy work- 
shops. Rising from the valley on the left are the abrupt barriers of Federal 
Hill. Directly before us, lifting itself above all surrounding structures, is the 
Federal Street school building. Moving still further to the left, the eye becomes 
bewildered amid the confused and varied mass of architectural structures, nearer 
and more remote, that crowd upon the vision. From this point may be seen 
many of the larger and handsomer buildings of the city with far better effect 
than close at hand, such as the cathedral and other leading churches, the gas 
reservoir, the Rhode Island Hospital, and other commanding points. During 
the fall of 1SS7 it was discovered that the wall of the terrace had begun to pro- 
ject outward, and it was feared that it might in time fall on the houses below on 
the slope of the hill, so during the winter of 'Sy-'SS the masonry was taken apart 
and built up anew, and in the summer of iSSSthe terrace was again in good and 
safe condition. 




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THE ARSENAL, BENEFIT BETWEEN THOMAS AND MEETING STREETS. 



The Pawtuxet River.— Within the past five years the stretch .of the 
Pawtuxet River from the village of Pawtuxet for several miles up stream, even 
to the Pettaconsett Pumping Station, and beyond to Pontiac, has become a 
favorite place for rowing and picnic parties by the young people of the city, on 
moonlight evenings, summer afternoons, and holidays. The river meanders 
between grassy banks which here rise in a steep hillside and there slope away 
in a meadow ; at one place the stream is overhung by stately trees, at another 
fringed by tangled shrubbery. It hardly follows a straight course for half a mile, 
and as a consequence the point of view is constantly changing, the effect of 
which is further increased by the diversified character of the banks. Several 
bridges cross the river, two of them being railroad bridges, and it adds much to 
the scenic effect to see a lighted train dash across one of them while the specta- 
tors are rowing slowly on the river below. What idyls, what romances, are 
here enacted "in the glimpses of the moon" — who can say? Certainly they 
are many, for the romantic surroundings, the music of the oars, the spell of the 
woods, the voices of the air, and the presence of eves that speak responsive to 
each other, all contribute to heighten the charm and to brinsr out the latent and 



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perhaps unavowed sentiment. Along the river are numerous spots where 
parties can enjoy a picnic, and many persons have already discovered these 
" woodland dells and mossy banks," and have availed themselves of their good 
fortune in recent seasons. The river is reached by the Pawtuxet line of horse- 
cars, and boats can be readily obtained at the boat-houses near the village. 

The city's water supply is pumped from the river at Pettaconsett, three 
miles above Pawtuxet, by powerful engines, which force the water into the 
Sockanossett Reservoir, on the heights about a mile west of the river. The 
system was put in successful operation November 30, 1S71. 

Walks About Town. — A former resident returning after an absence of 
twenty-five or thirty years would hardly recognize Westminster Street, and 
would look in vain about the city for many of its ancient but vanished land- 
marks, but would find in every direction marked evidences of improvement, and 
every way he turned some new object of interest would arrest his attention. He 
would especially notice the immense and elegant Narragansett Hotel on Broad 
and Dorrance streets, and the Hotel Dorrance on Westminster Street, new 




THE PROPOSED HOME OF THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, 
Jackson and Westminster Streets. 



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35 




THE RHODE ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S CABINET, 
Waterman Street. 



and luxurious homes for the traveler and sojourner, so unlike those of his day. 
On Exchange Place he would rind the magnificent new City Hall with its gener- 
ous approaches, and would be impressed with the grandeur of its lofty, artistic 
walls of enduring granite. 

The Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument standing directly in front of the new 
City Hall, erected by the state to the memory of the soldiers of the War of the 
Rebellion, attracts the attention of all visitors, while opposite, at the eastern end 
of Exchange Place, is the heroic equestrian statue of General Burnside which 
was dedicated with imposing ceremonies July 4, 1S87. 

When our returned townsman finds himself upon the " Great Bridge " as 
it used to be called, he perceives that it is very much broader and more substan- 
tial than in the olden time. It has the reputation of being the widest bridge in 
the world. It was once the only connecting link between the eastern and west- 
ern sides of the river. But he observes that now a series of bridges, both above 
and below, span the stream and divide the unceasing current of travel that flows 
over them. 

Nor has the improvement been confined to .the West Side. North Main 
Street has been widened and straightened, and with its handsome business 



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PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 




THE BURNSIDE STATUE. 



blocksjand substan- 
tial pavements, 
wears an aristocratic 
appearance, worthy 
the most ancient 
street of the city. As- 
cending Co liege 
Street, he discovers 
that where once 
stood the time-worn 
Town-House, now 
in its fair proportions 
rises the County 
Court House. With 
the gray walls of the 
staid Athenaaun on 
his Jight, he climbs 
the hill to the Uni- 
versity where he also 
sees many works of 
industry in the form 
of new buildings and 
other improvements. 
But will the stranger please accept our guidance to some of the most noted, 
and leading points of interest to visit here and there throughout the city. 
Leaving Narragansett Hotel and passing up Broad Street, from Dorrance to 
Richmond Street we get a view of the widest street in the city. A little far- 
ther on the music of falling water is heard and the eye refreshed with the sight 
of the tossing, sparkling plumes of the Abbott Park Place fountain. The fine 
edifice with colonnaded front, next beyond the fountain, is the Beneficent Con- 
gregational Church, one of the historic churches of the city. A little way 
down Chestnut Street, to the left, stands the Chestnut Street M. E. Church, the 
oldest Methodist Church in the city, and directly aci'oss Broad Street stands the 
handsome brick Central Baptist Church, one of the oldest of that denomination. 
Passing on up Broad Street we soon reach the Union Congregational 
Church, with its lofty spire, and turn to the right into Summer Street, where 
we find the city High School building, facing on three streets, and in close 
proximity an intermediate school building of picturesque design. Passing on 
to High Street, we turn again to the right, and move eastward to the junction 
of High and Westminster streets, near which is the new Cathedral, with its 
magnificent proportions, and its grand and imposing facade. Directly in front 
of this splendid edifice, at the junction of the two streets, the monument to 
the late Mayor Thomas A. Doyle will be erected, and across the square at the 
corner of Westminster and Jackson streets, fronting the Cathedral, the proposed 
new block of the Young Men's Christian Association is now in process of con- 
struction. 



PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 




From this 
point we 



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n gain a fine 

view of 
W estmin- 
ster Street, 
all of which 
may be seen 
at a glance. 
With its in- 
cessan t ly 
moving 
forms and 
cha ngin g 
colors, it is 
a perfect 
kaleidosco- 
pic view in 
perspective. 
What a 
lively, busy 
scene it is ! 
Far enough 
away to 
catch only 
the hum of 
its traffic, 
we can see 
the forms of 
men and 
w o m e n 
moving up 
and down 
the pave- 
ment, cross- 
ing and re- 
crossing 
from one 

side of the street to the other, while a crowd of vehicles of every description 
is in constant motion. Half-way up the street the tall, dark, tapering spire of 
Grace Church breaks the monotony of the sky-line on the right ; upon the left 
the scene is varied by the lofty towers of the Butler Exchange, or perhaps 
from the flag-staff surmounting the Hotel Dorrance may float upon the morning 
air the bright colors of our national banner. ., 

But we must not linger, so down the street we go, becoming ourselves a 
part of the picture we have been contemplating. 



Founde 



THOMAS J. HILL, 
the Providence Machine Company, and Manufacturer 



We reach the lower end of 



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B. B. KNIGHT, 
Of the Manufacturing Firm of B. B. & R.' Knight 



the street, and stop 
for a moment at the 
Atlantic building near 
the junction of West- 
minster and Weybos- 
set streets, to point 
out to our visitor the 
only bit of resem- 
blance to Boston, 
which our city can 
boast. From our sta- 
tion, looking directly 
into Weybosset Street, 
beyond the Post- 
Office, there is pre- 
sented in the narrow- 
ness of the street, the 
lofty blocks on either 
side, and the closing 
up and disappearance 
of the street in its 
curving lines, a strong 
suggestion of likeness 
to some of the narrow 



and winding by- 
ways of Boston, in 
the neighborhood 
of Court Street 
and Cornhill. 

From Crawford 
Street Bridge, 
looking south, in 
the early morning 
or near the sunset 
hour, especially 
when the condi- 
tion of the atmos- 
phere is favorable, 
very fine views of 
the harbor and 
upper bay, with 
quite effective and 
picturesque ef- 
fects, may be eas- 
ily obtained, or 
turning north- 






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WILLIAM H. HOPKINS, 
Of the Firm of Hopkins, Pomroy & Company. 



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EXCHANGE PLACE. 



ward as pleasing pictures of the business section of our city will gratify the 
visitor. 

For an enjoyable stroll, and to give the visitor and sight-seer the best views 
of the principal buildings and prominent features of the east side of the city, 
let us start from the old City Hall, now the Board of Trade Rooms, on Market 
Square, and passing up North Main Street, we soon come to Waterman Street, 
at which corner we find the venerable First Baptist Church, with its cool, green 
lawn, surrounded with its ancient elms. It is the oldest church edifice in the 
city, and one of the finest specimens of church architecture. Its tall, symmet- 
rical spire never fails to excite the admiration of the cultured observer. In this 
old church the commencement exercises of the University have been held for a 
long succession of years. 

Keeping up the street we have the State Normal School building confront- 
ing us, and as we cross Benefit Street, looking either way along this shaded 



avenue, we notice its many fine old mansions, 
arches, we catch a glimpse of the First 
Congregational Church spire, the pictur- 
esque outline of the County Court House, 
and the brown stone facade of the Central 
Congregational Church, with its twin tur- 
rets. Still following up Waterman Street 
to the right, we pass on either side delight- 
ful residences, and reach the hill-top at the 
junction of Waterman and Prospect streets. 
Across the way are the classic grounds 
and structures of Brown University ; di- 
rectly in front stands the new Library 
Building of the University (the gift of the 
late John Carter Brown), one of the finest 
in the world ; next east is the cabinet of 



Southward, through the leafy 




JOHN AUSTIN, ESQ., 

President of the High Street Bank. 

Founder of the Austin Gold Refinery. 



42 PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 

the Rhode Island Historical Society, with its rare collection of books, relics, 
and historical souvenirs open to visitors daily in the season. Waterman Street 
stretches thence eastward to the Seekonk River, along which, and on its parallel 
and intersecting streets in this favorite section of the city, the visitor will find 
many most charming private residences, with generous surroundings, adorned 
with shrubbery and flowers, fountains and statuary. We turn northward and 
take our way along Prospect Street, marking the tokens of wealth and ease on 
either side. Following Prospect as far as Barnes Street, and then going east 
we make Hope Reservoir, from the commanding site of which we gain a broad 
outlook. To the eastward are the pleasant grounds of Dexter Asylum and the 
Friends' School, which is one of the notable and honored landmarks of the city ; 
to the north and northwest the view widens out over the town and far away to 
the blue ranges of the open country. 

There are in Providence eighty-four church edifices and more than ninety 
societies that meet for religious worship, about ten of whom hold their services 
in hired halls. There are thirteen Baptist Churches, nine Congregational, 
twelve Episcopal, five Free Baptist, ten Methodist Episcopal, five Colored 
Methodist, fourteen Roman Catholic, three Unitarian, two Universalist, and two 
Presbyterian, besides ten of various other denominations. Many of the churches 
are elegant structures and add much to the beauty of the city. The most inter- 
esting from a historical point of view is the First Baptist Church on North Main 
Street already mentioned. St. John's Episcopal Church stands next in histori- 
cal importance. It is a handsome stone edifice further up North Main Street, and 
stands near the spot where the first settlement was made. The largest and most 
imposing church edifice in the city is SS. Peter and Paul's Cathedral on High, near 
the head of Westminster Street, which was dedicated with imposing ceremonies 
July, 1887. Other edifices in the central portion of the city are Grace Church, 
on Westminster Street, the First Universalist, corner Greene and Washington 
streets ; Westminster Congregational, Mathewson Street, and directly opposite 
the Mathewson Street M. E. Church ; Central Baptist, corner High and Burrill 
streets, and across the square on Broad Street the Beneficent Congregational ; 
further up Broad Street is the Union Congregational, a beautiful brick structure ; 
All Saints' Memorial, Episcopal, corner High and Stewart street, is a beautiful 
building of gothic architecture ; a short distance away is the Stewart Street 
Baptist Church. On the east side are many fine churches, the most noticeable 
of which are St. Stephen's, Episcopal, George Street, near Thayer; Hope 
Street M. E. Church, corner Power and Hope streets ; St. Joseph's Catholic 
Church, corner Hope and Arnold streets ; First Congregational, Benefit, corner 
Benevolent Street. The older churches in the city are nearly all plain struct- 
ures, but those erected in recent years are more elaborate and much better 
specimens of architecture. The Episcopal churches are nearly all very beautiful 
buildings, and the Roman Catholic churches are remarkable for their substantial 
character, as well as for their architectural excellence. 

It has always been a matter of uncertainty as to where Roger Williams was 
buried. Tradition has it that his remains were interred on the estate at the corner of 
Benefit and Bowen streets where the Sullivan Dorr house, so called, now stands, 



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43 



and which was at one time the residence of Thomas W. Dorr, the leader of the 
rebellion of 1842. There was a small graveyard here in the rear of the existing 
barns, and these graves were opened in 1S60 under the direction of Stephen 
Randall, a descendant from Mercy, the youngest daughter of Roger Williams. 
In this lot an orchard had been growing for many years. When the grave sup- 
posed to be that of Roger Williams was opened " a singular incident was dis- 
covered. The root of an apple tree had turned out of its way to enter in at the 
head. Following the position of the body to the thighs it divided and followed 
each leg to the feet, tender fibres shooting out in various directions. By nature's 
promptings it had taken up the chemical deposits of the body and turned them 
into blossoms and fruit." These quoted words are from an article by an official 
of Brown University who is an authority on local history. In the cabinet of 
Brown University this root can be seen to this day, appropriately labeled. 

Having thus briefly noticed the more important points of interest in the city, 
and given the visitor a " starter," we shall leave him to make his own way to 
the many other features of local interest which it is not necessary to enumerate 
here, and which will be indicated for his benefit in the Stranger's Guide. 

On the night of February 15-16, iSSS, Providence was visited by one of the 
most disastrous fires in its history. At 11.45 p. m., on Wednesday the 15th, the 
alarm rang out and shortly after midnight the fire had enveloped the Chace 
block, a large, towering brick edifice on the corner of Eddy and Fountain 
streets, and despite the efforts of the fire department, the flames spread until 
the whole section bounded by Union, Washington, Eddy, and Fountain streets, 
was ablaze. On this territory there were a number of large buildings, the whole 
covering more than twelve acres of ground in the most central portion of 
the city. The flames leaped from building to building until by 3 a. m. on 
Thursday morning, the 16th, there was no hope of saving any of the structures 
within the limits already mentioned, and the efforts of the firemen were expended 
to saving the adjoining buildings across the street from the doomed section. 

When daylight came the scene was one of desolation and ruin such as is 
seldom witnessed, but the effect in many respects was not only beautiful, but 
grand. The front of the Aldrich House was still standing, and the water from the 
firemen's hose had frozen on it in all manner of fantastic shapes, making a pic- 
ture that was both weird and beautiful, and transforming the structure into a verit- 
able ice palace, in which shape, as the weather was very cold, it endured for 
days, and while in this condition numerous photographs of it were taken. Our 
illustrations on page 47 show to great advantage this phenomenon as well as 
many other views of the ruins. The entire loss by this fire was about 
$500,000, which was only partly covered by insurance. One of the most 
serious losses was the entire destruction of the " Proprietors' Records," the 
documentary evidences and plans of the original land titles in the city and 
" Providence Plantations." They were in an iron-bound box in the office of 
Henry Staples & Company, in the Chace block, Eddy Street. 

Just after midnight Saturday morning, February iSth, it was discovered 
that the well-known Theatre Comique, corner of Orange and Weybosset 
streets, was on fire. Although the department responded immediately, the 



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flames had 
gained such 
headway — 
the building 
being of 
wood, o Id 
and dry — 
that all ef- 
forts to stay 
their prog- 
ress were 
futile until 
the entire in- 
terior of the 
edifice and 
of an adjoin- 
ing wooden 
building, the 
Telegraph 
House, had 
been con- 
sumed. The 
loss by this 
fire w a s 
about $25,- 
000, partly 
covered by 
insurance. 

Again on 
Sunday af- 
ternoon,Feb- 
ruary 19th, 
were the 
citizens of 
Providence startled by a call of fire, the third in four days. This time it was the 
Daniels & Cornell building, on Custom House Street, where the fire was supposed 
to have started about three o'clock in a water closet on the third floor, and had 
run up the shaft and also ascended the stair well. The fire soon obtained a 
strong headway on the upper floor in the large printing establishment of J. A. 
& R. A. Reid, and belched forth from the windows on the Custom House Street 
side in tongues of flames reaching half-way across the street. Such was the 
fierceness of the fire, that it was feared the magnificent collection of engravings 
which had been the accumulations of years, as well as the plates of a number 
of costly books published by the firm, would be destroyed. Next morning, 
however, it was found that while the fire had completely wrecked the establish- 
ment, the cuts and plates, although damaged to a considerable extent, were 
practically safe. The fire had not damaged the building much below the upper 
floor, but the damage by water on the lower floors was very great. 




WILLIAM T. NICHOLSON, 
Founder of the Nicholson File Works. 



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Notes on some of the Industries of the City. — One of the most 
favorably known and 'important of the iron industries in the city of Provi- 
dence, and one having a history of more than half a century, is that of the 
Providence Machine Company, of which Thomas J. Hill is the president and 
treasurer. These works have occupied an extensive site on Eddy Street for the 
last forty years. They are bounded on the west by Eddy Street, on the north 
by Crary Street, on the east by that extensive tract of water frontage and land, 
known to all Rhode Islanders as " Hill's Wharf, " on the south by the American 
Screw Company's buildings, and have always been known locally as "Hill's 
Machine Shop." From these works have been sent forth machines represent- 
ing the highest type of every stage of improvement made in cotton and woolen 
machinery, and their product to-day is abreast of every demand of the modern 
manufacturer. The establishment throughout is now, and long has been, one 
of the most complete and perfect in New England. The works were estab- 
lished and developed by Mr. Thomas J. Hill, and their history forms only one 
of the incidents in his varied and eminently successful business career. Mr. 
Hill was born in Pawtucket, in 180=;, and early in life he engaged in mechani- 
cal pursuits. In 1830 he came to Providence and took charge of a machine 
shop in connection with the steam mill then owned by Samuel Slater. In 1834 
Mr. Hill and Mr. Slater formed a partnership under the name of the Provi- 
dence Machine Company. In 1S35 Mr. Slater died, and Mr. Hill conducted 
the business alone, and built it up to such an extent that in 1845 the present 
extensive buildings were erected. In 1S46 Mr. Hill became the sole proprietor. 
A charter for a corporation had been secured in 1S67 and in 1874 a company 
was organized with Mr. Hill as president and treasurer ; his son, Mr. Albert 
Hill, secretary ; and Mr. Geo. J. Hazard, the present active manager, as agent. 
The works have been continuously prosperous from the first. The present 
manufactures of the company tax the works to their full capacity, and comprise 
cotton roving frames, combers and lap machines, worsted drawing, slubbing and 
roving frames, and worsted spinning and twisting frames. About three hundred 
hands are employed on the different branches of the work, which are carried on 
in separate buildings adapted to the purpose. The main building covers an 
area of 60 x 220 feet and is three stories in height; the pattern building is 40x80 
feet, and the blacksmith shop 40 x 100 feet. All parts of the machines are made* 
by the company, including castings and wood work, and all the machinery made 
is finished in the most substantial and thorough manner. Mr. Hazard, the man- 
ager, is a thorough machinist and gives every part of the work his personal super- 
vision. He has been with the company since 1854 — with the exception of an 
interval of four years when he was engaged with the Providence Tool Company 
in manufacturing rifles — and has advanced from the position of an apprentice 
to that which he now holds. 

Besides his connection with this, his original and pet enterprise, Mr. Hill 
has been very extensively engaged in other manufacturing ventures through- 
out New England. In 1867 he organized the Rhode Island Malleable Iron 
Works and founded the village known as " Hill's Grove," about seven miles 
from this city; and in 1S75 he started a cotton mill there of 20,000 spindles 
which he named the Elizabeth mill in honor of his wife. 



46 PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 

Now-a-days the necessity of and the benefit resulting from insurance are 
so well recognized that the only question is the reliability of the companies 
carrying the policy and the business character and trustworthiness of the agency 
through which it is negotiated. Mr. F. A. Waldron, Jr., having had an experi- 
ence of twenty years in this city in the insurance business, established an agency 
in 1SS7 at 33 Westminster Street, and represents the following first-class com- 
panies : German American, of New York, with a capital of $1,000,000, gross 
assets $5,286,249, and net surplus over and above all indebtedness $2,112,138 ; 
Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, of San Francisco, Cal., with a capital 
of $1,000,000, gross assets $2,181,925, and a net surplus of $367,568; the 
Merchants' Insurance Company of Newark, N. J., with a capital of $400,000, 
gross assets of $1,312,031, and net surplus of $467,249. Besides representing 
these companies which take fire risks, Mr. Waldron is the agent for the Trav- 
elers' Life and Accident Insurance Company, Hartford, Conn., the largest and 
strongest accident insurance company in the world, which has a paid up capital 
of $6,000,000, assets of over $9,000,000, a reserve of $7,000,000, and a surplus 
of $2,000,000. Mr. Waldron's experience equips him excellently for the posi- 
tion he now occupies, and the standing of the companies he represents guaran- 
tees insurance of the highest reliability. The agency can at any time be called 
up by telephone, the number being 16SS, and Mr. Waldron's post-office box 
is 1481. 



The oldest joint stock fire and marine insurance company in New England, 
and the sixth oldest in the world is the Providence Washington Insurance 
Company. It is the largest concern of the kind in Rhode Island. The com- 
pany under its present name dates from 1S17, when the Providence and the 
Washington Insurance companies united their business and their names. The 
first of these companies was organized in 1799, and the other in 1S00. They 
had done a prosperous business before this consolidation, and since then it has 
been continually increasing and extending, now having agents scattered 
throughout the United States. The cash capital at present is $400,000, and 
the assets on January 1st, 1S8S, were $1,116,858.70. The offices of the com- 
pany are at 20 Market Square, in the Providence Washington building, for- 
merly known as the What Cheer building, and now owned by this company. 
Since its organization the company has only had four presidents : first, Richard 
Jackson, father of Governor Jackson; second, Sullivan Dorr; third, John 
Kingsbury; and fourth, the present incumbent, J. H. DeWolf. The present 
secretary is J. B. Branch, and assistant secretary, George E. Bixby. The 
directors have always been men prominently identified with the business and 
manufactures in the state. The names of the present board, who are eminently 
men of the highest business position and character, are as follows : Rowland 
Hazard, J. H. De Wolf, Wm. Grosvenor, Jr., Wm. Ames, Henry J. Steere, 
F. W. Carpenter, R. I. Gammell, E. Philip Mason, Royal C. Taft, Eugene 
W. Mason, John S. Palmer. 



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PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 



The building of steam engines has been an important industry in the city of 
Providence for more than fifty years, in fact many of the chief improvements 
have been the inventions of local mechanics and manufacturers. In 1821, John 
Babcock began to build engines after the general pattern of Boulton & Watts, 
and his machines were put in to run cotton mills and print works in the city 
and its neighborhood. The works that Mr. Babcock then established have had 
a continuous existence from that time, and the present Providence Steam En- 
gine Company is the historical descendant of the early concern. The firm of 
Bartlett & Thurston succeeded John Babcock, and in 1S43-4 Noble T. Greene 
became a member. After various changes, in 1S63 the concern was organized 
as a corporation under the state laws, and named the Providence Steam Engine 
Company. Rathbone Gardner is president and treasurer, and T. W. Phillips 
manager and secretary. 

From 1S61 to 1SS4 these works were very largely engaged in the manufacture 
of marine engines and boilers. During the war of the Rebellion the company 
constructed many such engines for the United States government, successfully 
putting in operation two engines for sloops of war of three thousand tons each, 
three in double-ender gunboats designed for river service, and supplied more 




THE IMPROVED GREENE ENGINE. 

than three thousands tons of boilers, besides furnishing steam steering ap- 
paratus and steam windlasses. When the government began to construct its 
own boilers for furnishing high pressures, the company supplied them with the 
steam riveting machines required. The company was among the earliest 
builders of compound engines, one of which has been in successful operation at 
the Hope Pumping Station in this city for the past twelve years, night and day. 
The company makes a specialty of constructing the Improved Greene En- 
gine. The original automatic cut-off engine was known as the "Sickle's Cut- 
off', " and this company was the first and sole builders for land use. The next 
engine of this type to come into use was the Corliss, — soon followed by 
the Greene, which was built at these works under a royalty until its manufact- 
ure was enjoined by Geo. H. Corliss for alleged infringement of his patent. 
On the expiration of the Corliss patent in 1869, this company purchased the 



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Greene patent, revised the engine, 
retaining all the valuable features 
of the original Greene, eliminating 
the defects, and substituting new 
and valuable improvements which 
they have patented. They are now 
the sole builders, and the engine as 
now constructed is as nearly per- 
fect as the science of the times will 
permit. It is built for ioo lbs. 
steam, and is run from So to ioo 
revolutions per minute — the latter 
for electric lighting, for which pur- 
pose it is particularly adapted on 
account of its fine regulation. 
Since the} commenced its con- 
struction, the works have been run 
full time and extra hours, and its 
manufacture is now simply a ques- 
tion of the capacity of the works 
to produce it. 






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THE CHESTNUT STREET M. E. CHURCH. 



Better and less noisy methods 
of celebrating the national holiday 
have come into vogue in recent 
years, and at private outdoor gath- 
erings in the summer the practice of illumination on many occasions is becom- 
ing common. These facts, with the growing taste for decoration, at times of 
public or private celebration, has created more of a uniform demand for the 
classes of merchandise required to produce these effects. The only place in 
Rhode Island that makes an exclusive specialty of this description of goods is the 
Rhode Island Toy & Fh-ework Company, 23 Weybosset Street, F. C. Ferrin, 
Manager. They keep all kinds of fireworks and decorating goods for celebrating 
and political purposes, and their stock of Chinese and Japanese lanterns for illu- 
minating purposes is very extensive. Lines of supplies for political campaign 
purposes are carried in large quantities, and a special effort will be made this 
presidential year to meet the demand ; the only thing in this line the company 
does not deal in is uniforms. They manufacture a large proportion of their 
goods in another state, and also import all their foreign goods themselves, by 
these means being enabled to sell to gi'eater advantage than other dealers possi- 
bly can. This season a special invoice of 40,000 Japanese lanterns have been 
imported. For the winter and holiday trade the firm imports large quantities 
of Christmas goods — toys, albums, fancy articles, china ware, etc. A large as- 
sortment of sporting goods is always in stock, and the company are agents for 
Reach's base ball supplies. The store at Weybosset Street is occupied for sale 
purposes, but on Peck Street the company has two extensive floors for storage. 



5 o PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 

The art of photography has attained a high degree of perfection in Provi- 
dence, and among the leading and most popular studios is the one established 
by Mr. H. Q. Morton at 75 Westminster Street. He began in this city in 1873, 
and has sustained a rapidly increasing business ever since. As an artist he has 
an enviable reputation, and by his untiring energy and determination to secure 
all of the latest improvements, and to do only the best work, he still continues 
to receive a patronage unexcelled by any photographer in New England. At 
one time he had made engagements for sittings for every fifteen minutes from 8 
to 5 o'clock daily for three weeks in advance, which is more than most artists 
have ever realized, and which bespeaks for him an ability to produce work in 
every way satisfactory to the public. His rooms are supplied with every im- 
plement ever invented necessary to develop the camera's finest results, either in 
card photographs, cabinets, panels, or large portraits. During the busy season 
he employs about twenty assistants. In addition to the above, Mr. Morton has 
completed and equipped a studio at Block Island at an expense of several thou- 
sand dollars, which he opens to the bon ton patronage of that noted summer 
resort during the months of July and August, and has also opened rooms at 81 
Westminster Street, Providence. In his particular department he has, by 
enduring enterprise, added very materially to the business growth of the city. 



Probably the historical successor of the old-time inn, where the fathers of 
the village assembled to gossip over the events of the day with each other and 
with the passing traveler, is the modern first-class hair-dressing establishment, 
where the genial but loquacious knight of the shears and the razor not only 
sharpens his steel implements, but, by interesting converse, " sharpeneth the 
countenances of his friends" of the great public. At no place in the city of 
Providence do business and professional men assemble in larger numbers or 
come in such a continuous stream, as at the hair-dressing rooms of W. J. 
Nichols, 26 Market Square. They are centrally located, being near the chief 
business section of the city. None but the best men are employed, eleven 
chairs being continuously in use, while an extra chair is in reserve. The 
establishment is first-class in every respect, and is not only the largest in the 
city of Providence, but in New England. In addition to the tonsorial features, 
a number of perfectly appointed bath-rooms are connected with the establish- 
ment. 



One of the most important branches of the jewelry manufacture is the re- 
fining and smelting of the worked-over material, "sweepings," and refuse of 
jewelry shops. Formerly these "sweepings," as all this class of refuse is tech- 
nically called, were thrown away as useless, but the invention of methods for 
the extraction of the gold and silver demonstrated the fact that the manufacturers 
had been wasting valuable material, and now the processes have been brought 
to such perfection that nearly everything is saved. This business has been de- 
veloped to its highest perfection in Providence by John Austin, at 74 and 76 
Clifford Street, where he has in operation the most complete jewelers' smelting 



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51 




THE REFINING WORKS OF JOHN AUSTIN, ESQ. 



works for waste that contains gold and silver, in the country, and probably in 
perfection of appointment and effectiveness of operation unequaled anywhere. 
Mr. Austin has been in this business since 1S57, starting originally as a 
workman. In 1S62 he began business on his own account, on Dorrance Street, 
and moved to his present location in 1863. Until within five years ago the 
business consisted entirely of refining " sweeps," which were shipped in the 
refined state all over this country and abroad, chiefly to Paris and London. 
But on account of a variety of circumstances, Mr. Austin realized that he 
would have to do his own smelting, and accordingly with the assistance and 
advice of skilled foreign workmen, he was enabled to develop a system of 
smelting that has resulted in making his establishment second to none in this 
line anywhere, and by this means all the zinc, copper, and lead which were 
really thrown away when the " sweeps" were shipped, are saved and utilized 
at home. With the present facilities an average of one and a quarter tons of 
"sweeps" can be smelted per hour. The development of the processes has 
been mainly the result of Mr. Austin's own study and experiments, and they are 
now so perfect as to be extremely simple and economical in practice, so that at 
his establishment much more work and better results are obtained for a corre- 
sponding outlav of time and labor than at nnv other similar place in the country. 



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PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 




The city of Providence has many- 
special lines of manufacture, but none 
are more interesting than one conducted 
on the banks of the Seekonk River, cor- 
ner of Waterman and East River streets, 
near the Red Bridge, in a peaceful neigh- 
borhood, quite away from the hum of 
business. Here, in commodious quar- 
ters, the American Ship Windlass Com- 
pany constructs steam windlasses, steam 
capstans, improved hand windlasses and 
capstans, and these machines have been 
and "are of such approved merit that 
they are in general use in the best 
class of vessels, both in the government 
and merchant service. Attention is exclusively devoted to the construction 
of these machines, the methods of operation, the tools and appliances, and as a 
result the machines themselves have all been brought to a very high degree of 
perfection. The demands of modern commerce require large vessels, and the 
labor of weighing the anchors of these monster crafts as compared with the 
former class of vessels is such that the steam windlass is a necessary adjunct, 



:e steam capstan windlass, 
new style. 



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WORKS OF THE AMERICAN SHIP WINDLASS COMPANY. 

while its use saves much time and labor, as by its means two men can often 
accomplish work formerly requiring twenty or twenty-five. A majority of the 
steel and iron ships built in the last twelve years on the Atlantic coast and 
the great lakes are provided with this windlass, and seven-eighths of all the ves- 
sels of the country have them in use to-day. 



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OFFICE AND WAREHOUSE OF RUMFORD CHEMICAL WORKS, SOUTH WATER STREET, PROVIDENCE. 



When Roger Williams was banished from Massachusetts, he first landed 
on the east side of the Seekonk River, near the present village of Rumford, in 
East Providence, R. I. 

In these later days Rumford has attained a position of no little importance, 
by reason of the location there in 1854, of the famous Rumford Chemical 
Works, a corporation organized by Professor E. N. Horsford, of Cambridge, 
Mass., and his associates. The spot — once a barren waste — is now covered 
with fertile fields. Mr. Horsford was then Rumford Professor in Harvard Uni- 
versity, and in honor of this professorship and of its founder, Count Rumford, 
the works take their name. The products of the works are known as Professor 
Horsford's chemical preparations. They are " Horsford's Cream Tartar Substi- 
tute," " Horsford's Bread Preparation," "Rumford Yeast Powder," "Hors- 
ford's Phosphatic Baking Powder," " Horsford's Acid Phosphate," " Hors- 
ford's Anti-Chlorine," and "Horsford's Sulphite," besides general and special 
chemicals. 

The product has been increased lately by a new manufacture, namely, a 
sparkling beverage which has been named " Phosa." It is prepared from 
Horsford's acid phosphate and pure fruit juices, and is a delightful, healthful, 
and refreshing drink. 

The works and their productions are of national importance, and they 
may indeed be considered as one of our national industries. 

As an instance of the high estimation in which these productions are held 
by scientific men, we subjoin an extract from a personal letter from Baron 



54 PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 

Liebig, the greatest known chemist in the world, to the inventor, Professor 
E.N. Horsford : 

"Royal Bavarian Academy of Science, Munich, July, 1868. 
"I have satisfied myself of the purity and excellence of your bread preparations. I consider this invention 
as one of the most useful drifts which science lias made to mankind! It is certain that the nutritive varae of the 
flour will be iucreased teu per cent, by your phosphatic bread preparations, and the result is precisely the same 
as if the fertility of our wheat fields had been increased by that amount. What a wonderful result is this! " 



To most persons mechanical processes are particularly interesting, and this 
is especially so in regard to such as deal with the materials of every day life. 
For this reason the grinding of grain has always been an unfailing source of 
pleased attention, and since it was one of the first of industries it has been cele- 
brated in song and story, by many of the greatest writers of the age. " Ho ! 
the dusty miller," — his mill on the river bank by the falls, was always the 
centre of trade, of gossip, and has been made the scene of many a romance. 
Now-a-days the opportunities for observing an old fashioned-grist mill are rare, 
but the modern mills are far more wonderful with their improved machinery. 
The mill of the Arlington Hay and Grain Company, Anthony Corcoran, man- 
ager, on corner Cranston Street and Depot Avenue, near the horse-car barn, is 
one of the most perfectly appointed of modern grist mills. It is equipped with 
Westinghouse boiler and engine of 60 horse-power, has automatic conveyors 
for grain to every story of the building, and is supplied with coolers and all 
modern appliances for handling grain. There are facilities for grinding 60 
bushels of grain per hour, and the elevators will unload from cars twenty 
bushels per minute. One hundred bushels of corn in the ear can be ground in 
one hour by the Sullivan Cracker in use in the mill. For economy in hand- 
ling, efficient management, and eligible situation, the mill has no superior, and 
on account of these advantages the patrons have the benefit of the lowest prices. 
The company, like the ancient millers, grind grain for customers, and do it 
promptly with satisfaction to all concerned. Besides their mill business the 
company also deals in hay, straw, salt, coal, wood, and grain of all kinds, and 
in addition to their main establishment already mentioned, have a branch store 
at 290 Broadway, Olneyville. Their telephone call number is 3816-2. 



Until comparatively few years ago there was no distinct profession of dentis- 
try, but every medical man, whether skilled in that line or not, was a dentist, 
his practice of the art, however, consisting mainly of extracting teeth ;• but with 
the subdivision of labor and the establishing of specialties in very recent time, 
dentistry has become a distinct profession, and from being merely devoted to 
the pulling of teeth, now deals more with their general care and preservation. 
Continuous advances have also been made for a number of years past in the 
use of anaesthetics, in methods of filling, dealing with sensitive teeth, and 
the making and fitting of artificial teeth. No practitioner of this noble and 
necessary profession has striven more earnestly to keep abreast of all these 
modern improvements than W. H. Tillinghast, D. D. S., 220 Westminster 
Street, Providence, in whose elegantly appointed, convenient, and roomy apart- 
ments the patient will be certain of the best care, skill, and treatment, and 
can also be sure that the methods employed are those which experience and the 
latest research has demonstrated to be the best. 



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No concern 
in Providence 
has acquired a 
wider or better 
reputation for ef- 
fective machines 
in their own line 
than Volney \V. 
Mason & Co. 
Their specialties 
are hoisting ma- 
chinery, friction 
pulleys, and 
clutches. The 
excellence of 
these appliances 
is shown by the 
fact that this 
company re- 
cently fitted up 

sixty -one hoisting machines, shafting, etc., in the New York Central and Hud- 
son River Railroad Company's hay depot, New York, being the most extensive 
collection of hoisting machinery ever assembled and operated in one establish- 
ment. Illustrated and described in the Scientific American, Api-il 21st, 18SS. 
They took the contract for the erection of these machines against all competition, 
and completed it in sixty days. Elevators of various kinds are also made, and 
many separate appliances that go with the peculiar class of machines made- 
The firm makes a point of carrying in stock a full line of wire rope for elevators, 
transmission, and rigging purposes, and are the only parties in Providence carry- 
ing such a stock. 



THE RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL. 



To establish a business, and by glowing advertisements and well-filled and 
gaudy show windows to hold the patronage of the public for a year or more, 
is comparatively easy, but the man of enterprise who succeeds for upwards of 
two decades in carrying a gradually increasing business year after year, selling 
to regular patrons, is the representative merchant — the one who must enjoy the 
better class of patronage. We find such the case in the career of the millinery es- 
tablishment located at 166 Westminster Street, Providence, which was founded in 
1S6S by A. Rhodes, whose name is well-known throughout the city and state from 
the fact that under his efficient management it has become one of the leading 
millinery houses of the state, and enjoys a patronage from the city and surround- 
ing towns unsurpassed by any establishment in New England. The secret of 
Mr. Rhodes* success is generally ascribed to his system of buying first-class 
goods in the belief that customers appreciate a trade which will give them last- 
ing satisfaction rather than pay their money for cheap goods, saving perhaps 
a few cents on the purchase, but by far the more costly in the end. 



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PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 




THE WORKS OF THE NICHOLSON FILE CO. 

Probably no better illustration of the skill and enterprise of native mechan- 
ics can possibly be cited than that afforded by the history of the Nicholson File 
Company. Mr. William T. Nicholson, a native of Pawtucket, and all his life 
engaged in the construction of intricate machinery, developed during and soon 
after the Civil War a series of machinery for the construction of files. Previous 
to that time file making by machinery had not been a success, but Mr. Nicholson 
made a very eminent success. The works, which are undoubtedly the largest 
of their kind in the world, are located near the heart of the city upon a plat of 
four acres of land, two-thirds of which is covered by substantial brick buildings, 
devoted entirely to the production of files, rasps, and filers' tools. The officers 
of the company are : W. T. Nicholson, president ; Stephen Nicholson, super- 
intendent ; Geo. Nicholson, treasurer; and Samuel Nicholson, secretary. 



For the extraction of teeth without pain the new anaesthetic is> the best in 
use. Dr. J. W. Bond, 224 Westminster Street, corner of Mathewson, has had 
many years' experience, and performs all operations very successfully and satis- 
factorily, and by its use he has extracted twenty-eight teeth at one sitting with 
positively no pain. The doctor specially excels in the making of artificial 
teeth. Particular attention given to preserving the natural teeth, and filling 
is done in the best manner. The office is fitted up with all the latest appliances, 
and the whole interior presents an air of general attractiveness. 



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IS l.;;!li>. 



It is very frequently a ques- 
tion with many of us as to 
where we can get a good suit 
of clothes made, and often a 
few hints about that matter 
from friends are very seasona- 
ble and aid us in making selec- 
tions. One of the best places 
in the city, easy of access, well 
lighted so that the quality and 
texture of the goods can be in- 
spected to advantage, is the 
tailoring establishment of H. 
W. Hudson & Company, on 
the ground floor of the Narra- 
gansett Hotel building, corner 
of Broad and Dorrance streets. 
The goods are principally of foreign make, but the best American fabrics are 
also kept in stock, so that there is always plenty of chance for selection, and the 
firm caters chiefly to the fine tailoring trade, and do very satisfactory work. In 
1879 they started business in the Old Infantry building, but in 1885 moved to 
their present location, where they have one of the best appointed establishments 
in the city. From the very beginning their business has constantly increased, 
necessitating in time their removal, and a continuous increase in the amount of 
stock carried has been required ever since then. 




THE NARRAGANSETT HOTEL, 
Corner of Broad, Dorrance, and Eddy Streets. 



In these days of change it is pleasant occasionally to find a business that 
has endured for half a century. Such is the record of that conducted by 
George Hutchins at 122 and 124 South Main Street, in the Infantry Building. 
This business was first established in 1838 at No. 9 Westminster Street, where 
it continued until January 1, 1858, when it was moved to the Howard Build- 
ing on Westminster Street, but remained there only one year, as that building 
was burned. For sixteen years thereafter the business was located at corner 
of Broad and Dorrance Streets. It was removed to Howard building in 1874 
and remained there eight years, was then for two years on corner of Westmin- 
ster and Union Streets, and for the past six years has been at its present location. 
The business increased continually from 1S50 to 1S75, a period of twenty-six 
years, in the last named year reaching the fine sum of a quarter of a million dol- 
lars. Most of the time since 1850 the stock carried has included crockery, 
china, glass, gas fixtures, silver ware, kerosene, oil and lamp goods. Nearly 
all the large hotels in the city and state have been furnished from this store, 
among them the magnificent Narragansett Hotel in this city. The present store 
is well supplied with all the goods just mentioned and many specialties in those 
lines, and the cheap rent and the personal attention Mr. Hutchins bestows upon 
the business enables him to guarantee first-class goods at low prices. He has 
just added to his stock a new patent oil stove, superior to any now in the mar- 
ket. 

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PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 



In a busy city the accessibility of a busi- 
ness establishment is an important consid- 
eration, especially if it is a place dealing 
in supplies of prime importance. The 
firm of Arnold, Miller & Co., dealers in 
house furnishing goods, corner High and 
Summer streets, opposite Dean, are ex- 
ceedingly well located, being within easy 
walking distance of families on High, 
Cranston, and Broad streets, Broadway, 
Atwell's Avenue, the intersecting streets, 
and all the western part of the city. They 
occupy a fine, large, brick building, four 
stories in height, and every floor is reached 
by a commodious elevator. A large stock 
is constantly carried, consisting of full 
lines of all descriptions of household sup- 
plies, fine furniture, kitchen furnishings, 
refrigerators, stoves, crockery, wooden ware, screens, curtains, oil stoves, and a 
specialty is made of carpets and oil cloths. Here may also be found in abun- 
dance the thousand and one articles necessary to fit out a house, and the cus- 
tomer will find ample convenience and be sure of the most courteous treatment. 




THE EMPORIUM OF ARNOLD, MILLER & CO. 



The Friends' School, an institution for both sexes, is upon an eminence in 
the City of Providence, one hundred and eighty-two feet above tide water. 
Most of the State of Rhode Island and a large district of Massachusetts are in 
view from its cupola, while the beautiful waters and shores of Narragansett Bay, 
complete the picture. Moses Brown, of Providence, founded it in 1784. The 
Yearly Meeting of Friends for New England has the care of it. A thorough, 
practical education for business life and the most approved preparation for col- 
lege are furnished. Many universities and colleges receive students from it on 
certificates, without examination. 

The school has a large number of experienced teachers, and, as far as 
practicable they are specialists, limited to their several departments. Industrial 
instruction has recently been added. The fine arts receive special attention. 
Excellent instruction is given in music. It has an astronomical observatory, 
valuable apparatus for chemical and physical work, and a rich mineral cabinet. 
The Library contains about six thousand well-selected volumes. A very home- 
like and agreeable appearance has recently been given to the rooms by the use 
of large numbers of beautiful pictures and busts. It is lighted with the Edison 
incandescent electric light. The educational force of an institution of this 
character is not limited to school hours ; it is constant. The great benefits 
of co-education are everywhere discernible. For particulars address, Augus- 
tine Jones, A. M., Friends' School, Providence, R. I. 






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PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 

Man's well-be- 
ing depends upon 
many agencies. 
First, he must be 
clothed. The 
wearer of a fabric 
from the plant or 
the animal seldom 
gives a thought 
to the means by 
which he is prop- 
erly clad, yet the 
making ready of 
these necessities 
of civilized exis- 
tence requires the 
time, thought, and 
labor of a vast 
army of workers. 
The agents who 
stand between the 
producer and the 
consumer are in- 
dispensable to 
both. What hin- 
drance and waste 
would result if 
every man must 
buy cloth, thread, 
and buttons, and 
find cutter and 
maker. The tailor 
would be embar- 
rassed if he had to 

procure all his goods from the manufacturer, but he is best served by buying of 
the merchants who make a specialty of supplying his wants. 

Messrs. Hale & Bosworth (George B. Hale and John C. Bosworth) belong 
to this class of the people's agents, and they deal in foreign and domestic woolens 
and tailors' trimmings, keeping before their customers the best productions 
found in home and foreign markets. The business was established January i, 
18S2, in Butler Exchange, but is now carried on in the Masonic Hall building, 
corner of Pine and Dorrance streets, where a large trade, growing larger rapidly, 
has been built up. Both members of the firm were formerly in the employ of 
Messrs. James H. Read & Company and are the only members cf the old 
house now in active business. The firm's wareroom measures 85 x 45, and is 
excellently adapted to the display of goods. There is ample storage room in 
the basement, and an elevator is devoted exclusively to the firm's business. The 
firm is favorably known, and finds customers throughout New England. 




IE NEW MASONIC HALL.— WAREROOMS OF HALE & BOSWORTH. 
Corner Pine and Dorrance Streets. Providence. 



PROVIDENCE. 6 1 





CAPTAIN W. M. JONES, GEO. A. KILTON, 

Superintendent of the Providence Line. Providence Agent of the Winsor Line Steamers. 

The "Winsor line" of steamers, at first called the " Empire line," and 
later the " Keystone line," was established to run as freight steamers between 
Providence and Philadelphia, in 1866, by J. M. Huntington & Company, or 
Norwich, Conn. In 1872 the line was sold to Henry Winsor, of Philadelphia, 
by whom a new company was soon afterwards formed and incorporated by the 
Massachusetts legislature, with the title of the " Boston & Philadelphia Steam- 
ship Company," with its shipping port at Providence, transporting the freight 
received here to Boston and elsewhere by rail. 

The new line commenced business here early in 1866, with its first office 
at the Boston Railroad Company's wharf on India Street, at the foot of Ives. 
In 1872 the business was removed to the wharf on India, foot of South Main 
Street. In 1875, because of the great increase of business ample quarters were 
secured at Ives wharf, where the line now has a water front and a wharfage of 
225 feet, with a freight and store-house 225 by 60 feet, with over two acres of 
yard room and spur tracts connecting with the railroads on India Street ; with 
ample appliances for receipt, quick discharge, and careful storage of freight. 

The line at present comprises three large screw steamers: the Saxon, 
1,500 tons, Captain Wm. M. Swasey ; the Catherine Whitiftg, 800 tons, 
Captain John H. Briggs ; the Aries, 1,200 tons, Captain John R. Briggs, 
and the Tonazvanda, 800 tons, kept at Philadelphia as a spare steamer. 
One of these staunch and commodious vessels leaves each port every Wednes- 
day and Saturday afternoon. The line receives large freights of manufactured 
goods, cottons, woolens, hardware, and machinery, and brings back large 
cargoes of cotton, wool, leather, iron, hides, and other southern and western 
products. From Philadelphia, the agents forward freight west by the Penn- 
sylvania Railroad, and south by the Ocean Steamship Company to Savannah. 

The present officers of the line are as follows : president, Henry Winsor, 
of Philadelphia ; treasurer, Edward Whitney, of Boston ; secretary, James 
Hill, of Boston. Agents : Henry Winsor & Company, at Philadelphia ; E. B. 
Sampson, at Boston. Mr. George A. Kilton has been the Providence agent 
of this line from 1872 to the present time. 



63 PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 

.In 1S30, not far from its present location, the Phenix Iron Foundry was es- 
tablished. The business of the concern has always been largely in connection 
with cotton and woolen mills and dyeing, bleaching, and finishing works. 
Heavy shafting in all its parts, and gearing have been made chiefly for the fifst 
two industries mentioned, while for the other three complete machinery has 
been manufactured. Here in these works have been made the majority of the 
large calender rolls used in this country, which are constructed of either corn 
husks, cotton, or paper. Other specialties manufactured are tentering machines 
for diving and softening cloth including ginghams and velveteens ; mangles of 
all kinds, hydraulic presses, and a variety of other machines. 

A machine shop has always been operated in immediate connection with 
the foundry. In 1S4S, the principal owners with others built the Elm Street 
machine shop, and both establishments were conducted practically by the same 
management. The machine shops and their connected buildings are on Elm 
and Butler streets and extend through to South. They have a frontage of 
eighty feet on Elm, 200 feet on Butler, and eighty feet on South Street, covering 
the entire lot. There is also a wood working shop on corner of Elm and South 
street where the patterns and wood work of the establishment are made, 
and the dimensions of which are 30 x 90 feet. The foundry and offices of the 
company are on Elm Street east of Eddy. The total area of the entire works is 
200,000 square feet. 

The first American-made calico printing machine was produced here, and 
their manufacture still forms a part of the business. For about forty years a 
friction pulley clutch has been made, which for substantial character for large 
power has never been excelled. 

The concern has recently begun the manufacture of the Nagle power boiler 
feed pump, which meets a demand long existing for a thoroughly good force 
pump for the continuous feeding of steam boilers and general mill use for sup- 
plying tanks, etc. It is exclusively made at these works. Send for book giving 
full information. 

In a spacious fire-proof building are stored patterns for gears to the value of 
more than two hundred thousand dollars. These, with patterns for pulleys of all 
sizes have been accumulating for nearly sixty years. A full list of gears and 
pulleys has been printed for the use of patrons. 

The daily capacity of the foundry for castings is above twenty -five tons. 
There is no intermission in the daily casting, so that mill owners and others may 
be sure of the prompt execution of orders. 

The capital stock of the company is $140,000. Under a change in the man- 
agement many improvements have been made and evidences of increased activity 
are visible *in all directions. The present financial manager is Charles R. 
Earle, who is president and treasurer. Mr. Amos W. C. Arnold, the present 
agent, has held that position since 1885, and has been in the employ of the com- 
pany for about fourteen years. He is a practical man in all respects, and his 
large experience enables him to take advantage of all recent improvements to 
develop the works to the best advantage. About one hundred and seventy-five 
men are employed in the entire works. 



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PICTURESQUE NARRAGAXSETT. 



The largest marble and granite work. . 
the city of Providence are those of Si 
ton & Farnum, at 575 High Street. Here 
at all times can be seen in their extensive 
sheds all descriptions of monuments, head- 
stones, mantels, lettering and carving in 
process of construction Besides this busi- 
ness the firm deals in marble mantels made 
in imitation of cherry, mahogany, antique 
oak, and other prevailing fashionable styles, 
and the imitations are so perfect that even 
experts cannot detect them by the eye. The 
firm are also agents for the Aldine patent 
iron fire-pla.ce, which is probably the 
most effective contrivance for heating and 
ventilating offices and rooms in use. It is 
the only open fire-place that can be piped 
to a chimney, one or more rooms removed from the grate itself. It takes in the 
cold air from the floor by suction, and emits, the heated air from above the 
grate, while its embodiment of the return draft principle ensures perfect com- 
bustion, the whole resulting in a very perfect ventilation of the room. 







THE ALDINE PATENT FIRE-PLACE 



If you want to get a good article in ice cream, one of the best places to go 
to is W. H. Doughty & Company's, 79 Fifield Avenue. The firm started busi- 
ness in 1885 rear 989 Eddy Street in a small shop with hand machinery, but 
business increased so rapidly that next season they removed to their present lo- 
cation, where they operate a six horse-power engine, run three machines, have 
five teams out retailing their cream, and employ from seven to ten men. 
Special attention is paid to supplying families, select parties, church festivals, 
or excursion parties, and orders large or small can be filled at short notice. A 
prompt response is always made to telephone orders. The firm also makes a 
specialty of hulled corn in the winter season, and as some of the partners have 
had an experience in this line extending over twelve years, they can guarantee 
an excellent article. 



A first-class place where ladies could go to have their hair dressed and 
trimmed without the publicity that is a necessary feature of even the most 
elegant barbering establishment patronized by gentlemen, has long since been 
a desideratum in this city. In view of this fact Messrs. Parker & Storm have 
recently fitted up a ladies' parlor, in a commodious apartment in the base- 
ment of the Hotel Dorrance, across the entrance from their gentlemen's es- 
tablishment. This room is specially devoted to ladies, where they can have 
the consciousness that they will not be subjected to the scrutiny of a promiscu- 
ous company ; it is fitted up elegantly, and three chairs are in constant use. 
In the gentlemen's department across the passage, six chairs are in use. and 
every convenience, such as baths, boot polishing, etc., is readily furnished. 




THE NINTH ANNUAL RHODE ISLAND CLAM DINNER, TENDERED 
WORKS, AT VUE DE L'EAU CLUB, PR( 




THE ELECTRICAL FRATERNITY BY THE AMERICAN ELECTRICAL 
JENCE, R. I., ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 12th, 1887. 



PROVIDENCE. 




AMERICAN ELECTRICAL WORKS. 



The manufacture of electrical sup- 
plies is conducted on. an extensive 
scale by the American Electrical 
Works, No. 67 Stewart Street, Provi- 
dence. The business was begun by 
Eugene F. Phillips in 1S70, with two 
braiding machines, which could have 
been run on an ordinary office desk. 
A steady increase continued until 1S7S, 
when Mr. Phillips associated with him- 
self Mr. Wm. H. Sawyer, as superintendent of the works, a thoroughly prac- 
tical electrician, who has made the mysteries of electricity a life study. This 
gave a fresh impetus to the business, and in 1SS2 the concern was incorporated 
as the American Electrical Works, with Mr. Phillips as president, and Mr. 
Sawyer as secretary and treasurer. Each succeeding year has shown sales much 
greater than its predecessor, and the scope of 
articles furnished has increased from two or three 
styles in 1S70 to over one thousand in 18SS. 
Among these are electric light wire, telephone, 
incandescent and electric cordage, magnet wire, 
patent rubber covered wire, office and annunciator 
wire, lead encased wire, Faraday aerial and un- 
derground cables. Orders have increased from a 
few pounds in 1S70 to ten and twenty thousand at 
present, the Faraday cables being ordered in lots 
as large as twenty miles at one time, the length 
of the latter strung out as single wire would measure 2,000 miles. The 
main factory is a four-story brick building with a basement, 121 x 40 feet, with 
two Ls, each 65x30 feet, while in the rear is a four-story wooden building, 
115x30 feet, the whole forming a hollow square, in the centre of which is an 
engine which operates the entire establishment. A visit to these works will 
repay any one interested in electrical matters. 





THE VUE DE L'EAU CLUB HOUSE AND GROUNDS. 



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PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 



The idea' of 
pain is i n t i - 
mately associa- 
ted with the 
mere sugges- 
tion of any op- 
eration upon 
the teeth. But 
like any other 
science or pro- 
fession, won- 
derful improve- 
ments are being 
made in dentis- 
try. Dr. Z. T. 
Williams, 527 
High Street, 
corner of 
Kn igh t, e x - 
tracts teeth free 

of pain, without the use of chloroform, ether, or gas. He can also extract your 
teeth and give you a full set the same day, being probably the only man in 
Providence who can do this. Such a set he guarantees to fit for ten years. His 
new gold-lined vulcanite plates are worth examining. Special attention is 
given to treating and saving the natural teeth, and thereby badly decayed and 
ulcerated teeth are rendered painless and serviceable for years. Roots crowned 
and restored to their original usefulness. All work done by the doctor will be 
found to be eminently satisfactory. The office, being at the corner of High 
and Knight, is exceedingly well located for a large section of the city. 




THE FIRST LIGHT INFANTRY BUILDING, 
South Main Street. 



One of the most enjoyable excursions in the state is a trip up the Woonas- 
quatucket Valley on the Providence and Springfield Railroad, which is only 
twenty-three miles in length, and runs for nearly the whole distance on the 
bank of the river, alternately crossing and recrossing the stream, but mostly 
keeping on the south side. Between Providence and Pascoag, the terminal 
station, there are sixteen factory villages. The train speeds along past a con- 
tinual succession of pleasant scenes consisting of wooded banks, sloping mead- 
ows, mills in the hollows, houses among the trees, a church here and there 
on high ground, and the river in places stretching out in a wide expanse, held 
back by a dam, or in other localities rushing over the rocky bed or pouring 
over an artificial waterfall, a bright and laughing stream. Notwithstanding the 
many villages, the outlook for the greater part of the distance is on the woods 
and fields. The road follows the Woonasquatucket River until beyond Georgia- 
ville, and from thence onward to the terminus follows the valleys of the Tar- 
kiln and Clear rivers. The beauty of the country along this road has already 
attracted many residents, who, by means of the railroad, live in these scenes of 
rural contentment and get to and from their business in the city. 



The Strangers' Guide-Providence. 



HOTELS. 

Narragansett, corner Dorrance and Broad. 

Dorrauce, corner Dorrance and Westminster. 

City, Broad, near Eddy. 

Perrin. 127. 123. ami 131 Washing-ton, opposite Snow. 

Central, 6 to 10 Canal. 

Revere, corner Pine and Dorrance. 

iEtna, (formerly Freeman i. 96 Fnion. 

St. George. 66, 68, and 70 Washington. 

Musee, 1 Aborn. 

Hopkins, 421 and 423 High. 

Mansion House, 159 Benefit. 

Bruchers, 261 Westminster. 

Girard, Eddy Street opposite City Hall. 

Bijou, 5U, Union Street, 

CHURCHES. 

Ba ptist. 

Branch Avenne, Flora, corner Ashton. 

Broadway, Broadway, corner Valley. 

Central, High, corner Burrill. 

Congdon Street, Congdon. 

Cranston Street. Cranston, corner Paine. 

Ebeuezer, Slade building, 45 Eddy. 

First, North Main, between Waterman and Thomas. 

Fourth. Scott, corner Bacon. 

Friendship Street, Friendship, corner Prince. 

Jefferson Street, Jefferson, corner Common. 

Mt. Pleasant, Academy ave., corner Beaufort. 

Roger Williams, Wanskuck. 

South, Ocean, corner Gallup. 

Stewart Street, Stewart, corner Pond. 

Union, East, corner John. 

Congregational. 

Academy Avenue, Mount Pleasant. 
Beneficent, Broad, near chestnut. 
Central, Benefit, near College. 
Elmwood, Greenwich, corner Oakland. 
Free. Richmond, corner Pine. 
North, Charles, near R. R. cr< ssing. 
Pilgrim. Harrison, near High. 
Plymouth, Richardson, near Prairie avenue. 
Union, Broad, near Stewart. 

Episcopal. 
All Saints' Memorial, High, corner Stewart. 
Church of the Messiah, High, corner Valley. 
Church of the Redeemer, North .Main, corner Riley. 
Church of the Saviour, Benefit, corner Tiausit. 
Church of the Epiphany, Elmwood, Potter's avenue, 
near Greenwich. 
Christ, Oxford, corner Eddy. 
Grace, Westminster, comer Mathewson. 
St. Paul's, Carroll, near Orms. 
St. James, Gesler, near Courtland. 
St. John's, North Main, corner Church. 
St. Stephen's, George, near Thayer. 
St. Thomas', Douglas ave., near Wanskuck. 

Free Baptist. 
First, Plainfield, Olneyville. 

Greenwich Street, Greenwich, cor. West Friendship. 
Second, Pond. 

Park Street, Park, corner Jewett. 
Roger Williams, High, corner Knight. 

Methodist Episcopal. 
Asbury, Hewes, near North Main. 
Broadway, Broad way, corner Ringgold. 
Chestnut Street. Chestnut, corner Clifford 
Cranston Street. 441 Cranston. 
Harris Avenue, Harris ave.. near Broadway 
Hope Street, Hope, corner Power. 

Mathewson Street, Mathewson, between Westminster 
and Washington. 
St. Paul's, Potter's avenue, cor. Prairie avenue. 



Trinity, Broad, corner Major. 
Swedish, Federal, corner Salmi. 



Roman Catholic. 



Assumption. Potter's avenue, near Cranston. 

Cathedral, SS. Peter and Paul. High, corner Fenner. 

Holy Name. Jenkins, corner Knowles. 

Immaculate Conception, West River. 

Pro-Cathedral, Broad. 

St. Charles, French Church, Branch Avenue. 

St. John's. Atwell's avenue, corner Sutton. 

St. Patrick's, State, near Smith. 

St. Mary's, Broadway, corner Barton. 

St. Joseph's, Hope, corner Arnold. 

St. Edward's, Geneva. 

St. Michael's, Prairie avenue, corner Oxford. 

St. Teresa's, Manton avenue. 

St. Thomas. 

Elmhurst (Convent), Smith. 

Unitarian. 

First Congregational, Benefit, corner Benevolent. 

Olney Street Congregational. Olney, opposite Pratt. 
Westminster Congregational, Mathewson, near West- 
minster. 

Universalisl. 
Ballon Universalist, North, near Orms. 
Church of the Mediator. Cranston, corner Burgess. 
First, Greene, corner Washington. 

Presbyterian. 
First, Clifford, near Claveri.k. 
United, Broadway, corner Hicks. 

Other Denominations. 

Advent Christian Society, Hammond. 

African Union, Clayton (colored). 

Allen Chape!, ,\ Street (colored). 

Bethel, Meeting, near Thayer (colored). 

Christian, Broad, corner Fenner. 

Christian Mission or Bethel Coffee House, 84 Wickendeu 

Church of the Yahveh, Pearl, corner Providence. 

Congregation Sons of Israel and David, 98 Wevbosset. 

i Iranston Mission, Baptist, Jackson Avenue. 

Iioughty's Mission, Advent. Rmad. near Prairie Ave. 

Ebenezer Primitive Methodist, Franklin Avenue, cor- 
ner Vale. 

Free Religious Society, Blackstone Hall, Washington, 
.comer Snow 

Friends Meeting, North Main, corner Meeting. 

Gorton Hall Christian Mission, Potter's Avenue, near 
Cranston. 

Gospel Mission, 114 Hierh. 

I.ilac Street M. E„ 76 Lilac (colored). 

Manton Christian Church, Manton avenue, corner 
( halkstone avenue. 

Mount Zion (colored (Potter's avenue, comer Cranston. 

New Jerusalem Church, Broad, corner Linden. 

Olivet Mission (colored i. Oomrre^atiomil. Ill Cove, 
room 4. 

Pawtucket Avenue Mission. Baptist. Pawtucket ave. 

People's Evangelical Church, 163 Oxford 

Pettis Avenue Mission. 

Providence Spiritual Association. Blackstone Hall. 

Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ, 275 High. 

Salvation Army of America, 265 High. 

Salvation Army ( Em-'lishi, -jxl High. 

Second Advent, Temperance Hal), Eddy, corner Pot- 
ter's avenue. 

„? t ™ Andrew ' s Mission, Episcopal, Odd Fellows Hall, 
Mt. Pleasant, 

Swedish Baptist Mission. 98 Weybosset. 

Swedish Episcopal Mission, Grace church chapel 

Swedish Christian Association, 7(1 Weybosset. 

Swedish Methodist Mission, slade Building, Eddy 

Swedish Lutheran, Slade Building, Eddy. 
Union Sea and Land Mission, Ashore and Afloat, 108 
John. 
Union A. M. E„ Leorna. 
Zion, Gaspee, near Smith (colored). 



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PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 



POINTS OF INTEREST. 

Allen's Print Works, Printerv and Thurber's Lane. 

American Screw Co.'s Works. New England Mills 
Eddy. 

American Screw Co 's Works, Eagle Mills, Stevens. 

American Ship Windlass Co., Waterman, corner East 
Kiver. 

Arcade, 76 to 84 Westminster, running through to Wey- 
bosset. 

Arminarton & Sims Engine Co., Eagle Street. 

Arsenal. Benefit, near Meeting. 

Athemeum, Benefit. 

Atlantic Mills, Manton Avenue, Olneyville. 

Barstow Stove Co., Point, corner Chestnut. 

Blackstone Hall, Washington, corner Snow. 

Board of Trade, Market square. 

Brown .t Sharpe Manufacturing Co., Promenade. 

Brown University, Prospect. 

Brown University Ball Ground. George. 

Brown, The John, House. Power, corner Benefit. 

Brown, Deputy Governor Elisha, House, 537 and 539 
North Main. 

Bryant and Stratton Business College, Hoppin Home- 
stead Building. 

Builders' Iron Foundry, 22 Codding, near High. 

Burnside Monument. Exchange place. 

Butler Hospital for the Insane, Swan PointRoad, near 
Butler Avenue. 

Butler Exchange, Westminster. 

Cathedral, High, corner l'enner. 

Charity Building, 3 North Court. 

City Hall, Exchange place. 

City Machine Co., Harris Avenue, corner Acorn. 

Conrad Building, Westminster, corner Aborn. 

Corliss Steam Engine Co.'s Works, Charles and Burt. 

County Court House, Benefit. 

Cove Promenade, rear of Union Passenger station. 

Custom House, Weybosset. 

Davol Rubber Co., 16 Point. 

Dexter Training Ground, Dexter, near High. 

Dexter Asylum, Hope. 

Dyer's Opera House, Olneyville Square, Olneyville. 

Dyerville Manufacturing Co., Dyerville. 

Elba Woolen Mills, Butler, corner Elm. 

Elizabeth Building. 1(;2 to 11)6 North Main. 

Elmwood Cotton Mills. Mawney aud Daboll. 

Exchange Place, opposite Union Passenger Depot. 

Franklin Foundry and Machine Co., Charles and 
Randall square. 

First Baptist Church, North Main. 

First Congregational Church, Benefit. 

First Universalist Church, Greene. 

Fletcher Manufacturing Co., Back and Charles. 

Fox Point Wharf, south end South Main. 

Freemason's Hall, Dorrance, Pine : and Eddy. 

Friends' Boarding School. Hope 

Friends' Meeting House, North Main. 

Fuller Iron and Machine Works, South Main, cor. Pike. 

Gasometer, Crary. (largest dome in the world). 

Gas Works, Benefit, coiner Pike. 

Gas Works, Laugley. 

Gas Works. Allen's avenue. 

Geaeva Mill, Douglas Avenue, Geneva. 

Gorham Manufacturing Co., North Main, corner 
Steeple. 

Grace Church, Westminster. 

Granger Foundry aud Machine Co., Gaspee, corner 
Francis. 

Grant Mill, Carpenter, corner Grant. 

Harbor Junction Wharf, South Providence. 

Harris Steam Engine Works, Park, corner Promenade. 

Hia-h School, Summer. 

Hillside Woolen Mills, Eagle. 

Home for Atred Women, Front. 

Hope Club House, 6 Benevolent. 

Hope Pumping Station aud Reservoir, Olney. 

Hopkins. Stephen, House. Hopkins. 

Hoppin Homestead Building, 277 to 289 Westminster. 

Horse Car Depot, foot of Westminster. 

Hotel Dorrance. Westminster. 

Hoyle Tavern, Junction High and Cranston. 

Infantry Armory, South Main. 

Laureldale Chemical Works, Promenade. 

B F. Keith's Gayety Opera House, formerly Low's 
Grand Opera House, 192 Westminster. 

Manton Manufacturing Co., Manton. 

Market Square, space around old city building, near 
Horse Car station. 
McWilliams Manufacturing Co., Ill Orange, 
Miller Iron Co., Harris Avenue. 
Monohansett Mill, Eagle. 

Mowry &Goff, English and Classical School, Snow. 
Music Hall, Westminster, corner Aborn. 
Narragansett Boat Club House, Seekonk River, near 
Red Bridge. 
Nan agausett Hotel, Dorrance. 
New England Butt Co., Pearl, corner Perkins. 
Nicholson File Co., 118 Acorn. 
Normal School, Benefit, corner Angell. 
North Burying Ground. 

Nottingham Mills (formerly Steam Mill), 314 Dyer. 
Odd Fellows Hall, 97 Weybosset. 



Olneyville Square, end High, at western extremity city, 
on border town of Johnston. 

Oriental Mills, Admiral, corner Whipple. 

Phenix Iron Foundry, Eddy, corner Elm. 

Point Street Bridge. 

Post-Office, Weybosset. 

Prospect Terrace. Congdon. 

Providence Dyeing, Bleaching and Calendering Co., 
&36 Valley. 

Providence Institution for Savings, 76 South Mam. 

Providence Machine Co., 564 Eddy. 

Providence National Bank. 

Providence Opera House, Dorrance, corner Pine. 

Providence Steam Engine Co., 373 South Main. 

Providence Worsted Mills, Valley. 

Randall Square, junction Charles, Randall, Stevens 
and Chalkstone Avenue. 

Red. or Central Bridge, east end of Waterman, to East 
Providence. 

R. 1. Bleach and Dye Works, Eddy, corner Bleachery. 

R. I. Club, 171 Broad. 

R. I. Hospital, Eddy. 

R. I. Locomotive Works, Valley, corner Hemlock. 

R. I. School of Design, Westminster. 

Richmond Print Works, Valley, corner Eagle. 

Riverside Mills, Kilby, near Manton Avenue. 

Roger Williams Park, south end city. 

Rumford Chemical Works, 175 South Main, and Rum- 
ford. East Providence. 

Sabin Tavern, The Old, corner Planet and South Main. 

Sacred Heart Female Academy, (Roman Catholic), 
Elmhurst, Smith. 

Sanitary Gymnasium, Aborn. 

Sans Souci Summer Garden, Broadway. 

Seholnekl Commercial College, 174 Westminster. 

Silver Spring Bleaching and Dyeing Co., Charles, n. 
Admiral. 

Slate Rock, foot of William, near river bank. 

Soldiers' and Sailor's Monument, Exchange place. 

State House. North Main. 

State Normal School. Benefit. 

Stedman & Fuller Manufacturing Co., 58 Warren. 

Steere Worsted Mill, Wauskuck. 

St. Mary's Church, Broadway. 

Sullivan Dorr House, corner Benefit and Bowen. 

Swan Point Cemetery. „.,,,. 

Tillinghast House, The Old, corner South Main and 



Tool Co.'s Works. Burt. 

Union Club House, corner Washington aud Aborn. 
Union Congregational Church. Broad. 
Union Oil Co., India near Ives. 
Union Passenger Station. Exchange Place. 
University Grammar School, cor. College aud Prospect. 
Valley Worsted Mills, Eagle. 
Wauskuck Mills. Branch Avenue, Wanskuck. 
Washington Bridge, Iudia Point to East Providence. 
Waterman Burial Place, corner Benefit and Waterman. 
Weybosset Mills Valley, corner Oak. 
Whipple House, oldest house in Providence, north side 
Abbott Street, near North Main, at North End. 
Whitestoue Cotton Mill, Cranston, corner Dexter. 
Wilkes Barre Pier, East Providence. 
Y. M. C. A. new building, corner Westminster and 
Jackson. 

INSTITUTIONS. 

Arion Club, (musi'-al), Blackstone Hall. 
Art Club. 11 Thomas. 

Atheuseum, Benefit, corner College. 

Board of Trade, Market square. 

Bronson Lyceum, 159 Westminster. 

Brown University, Prospect, opposite College. 

Butler Hospital for the Insane, Swan Point Road, near 
Butler Avenue. „ , 

Children's Friend Society, (Orphan's Home) 47 Tobey. 

Christian Mission, or Bethel Coffee House, Wickenden. 

Commercial Club, (business). 

Deaf and Dumb School, Fountain, near Aborn. 

Dexter Asylum, Hope. 

Frankliu Lyceum, 62 Westminster. 

Friends' School, Hope. 

Home for Aged Men, 63 Chestnut. 

Home for Aged Women, Front, corner East. 

Hope Club, 6 Benevolent. 

Irrepressible Society, 81 North Main. 

La Salle Academy, Fountain near Broadway. 

Mechanics Exchange, 9 Custom House. 

Narragausett Boat Club, Seekonk River, foot of Angell. 

Providence Association for the Benefit of Colored Chil- 
dren, 20 Olive. 

Providence Lying-in Hospital. 

Providence Medical Association. 54 North Mam. 

Providence Press Club, Room 17, 4th floor, Butler Ex- 
change. 

Public Library, 55 and 57 Snow. 

Reform School, at State Farm. Cranston, R. I. 

Rhode Island Exchange for Women's Work, 343 West- 
minster. 

Rhode Island Homeopathic Hospitil, 151 Olney. 

Rhode Island News dealers Protective Union, 91 West- 
minster, room 7. 



PROVIDENCE. 



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Rhode Island Society for the Encouragement of Do. 
mestic Industry, 128 North Main. 

Roger Williams Saving Fund and Loan Association, 62 
Westminster. 

Rhode Islan 1 Bible Society, 133 Westminster. 

Rhode Island Women's Christian Temperance Union. 
14 Butler Exchange. 

Rhode Island Historical Society, Waterman. 

Rhode Island Hospital, Eddy, near Hospital. 

Rhode Island School of Design, 283 Westminster. 



St. Aloysius Orphan Asylum, Prairie Avenue. 

St. Xavier Academy, 3U() Broad. 

St. Elizabeth Home, Atlantic, corner Melrose. 

Union for Christian Work, 135 Bread. 

Union Club, Washington, corner Aborn. 

University Grammar School, cor. College and Prospect. 

Veteran Fireman's Association, 98 Weybosset. 

Women's Educational and Industrial Union, 173 Broad. 

Women's Christian Association, Boarding Home, 66 
Fountain, Branch House, 96 Mathewson. 

Women's City Missionary Society. 

Women's Christian Temperance Union, 23 Butler Ex- 
change. 

Women's Club (R. I.), Conrad building. 

Woonasquatucket Library, Atwell's Avenue, cor.Eagle. 

Workiugmen's Home, Earle's Block, South Main, cor- 
ner James. 

Young Women's Christian Temperance Union, Library 
and Tea Room, 151 Broad. 

?. M. C. A., 276 Westminster, Music Hall Building. 



LOCALITIES IN CITY LIMITS. 



South Providence.— The southern portion of the city 

immediately west of the harbor, and included in the 

present Sixtu Ward 
Elmwood.— Southwest part of the city, west of South 

Providence, the main portion of Seventh Ward. 
W'anskuck.— A factory suburb in extreme northwest 

portion of city. 
Geneva.— A factory suburb west of Wanskuck. 
Mount Pleasant.— A considerable elevation covered 

with residences in western section of city. 
Olneyville.— A name applied generally to the locality 

centering on square of that name, two miles west 

from City Hall, a large part of which is across the 

line in town of Johnston . 
North End.— The locality in neighborhood of Randall 

Square and North Burial Ground. 
Arlington.— End of Cranston Street, west of Fenner 

Avenue in town of Cranston, just over the city line. 
Dyerville.— West from Mount Pleasant at extremity 

of Manton Avenue horse car route. 
Field's Point.— At entrance to Providence Harbor, 

South Providence. 
East Side.— All that portion of the city lying east of 

Providence River. 
Brook Street District.— On east side, south of Wick- 

enden Street. 
Federal Hill.— So called from the high sandy bluffs 

along the railroad west of Broadway, and name has 

been generally applied to this locality. 



CEMETERIES. 



Grace Church, Trinity Square. 

Hebrew Cemetery, Reservoir avenue. 

Locust Grove, Elmwood. 

North Burying Ground, North Main. 

Roman Catholic, Douglas avenue. 

Swan Point, Swan Point road. 

Oakland, Cranston, just beyond city line. Broad street. 

Riverside, adjoins Swan Point, within limits of Paw- 
tucket. 

St. Francis, new Catholic, Smithfield avenue, Paw- 
tucket, near Providence line. 



AMUSEMENTS. 



Amateur Dramatic Hall, South Main, corner Power. 
Keith Grand Opera House, Union, near Westminster. 
Prov. Opera House, Dorrance, corner Pine. 
Sans Souci Garden. Broadway, opp. Jackson. 
W estminster Musee, 266 Westminster. 



PARKS. 



Abbott Park, Broad. 

Blackstone, Seekonk River. 

Cove Promenade. 

Fifth Ward Park (formerly the Proprietors Burial 
Ground), Friendship, Beacon, and Plain sts. 

Franklin Square, Atwell's avenue, corner Bradford. 

Prospect Terrace, Congdon. 

Roger Williams, south end of city. 

Tockwotton Park, site of the old Reform School, Front, 
corner East, overlooking harbor. 

Washington Square, Benefit, corner India. 



PUBLIC SCHOOL BUILDINGS. 

Providence High School, Summer, corner Pond. 



Grammar Schools. 

Branch Avenue, junction Charles. 

Bridgham Street, near Division. 

Caudace Street, corner Orrns. 

Doyle Avenue, near Camp. 

Federal Street, Federal, corner Dean. 

Manton Avenue, corner Fruit Hill avenue. 

Mt. Pleasant, Atwell's aveuue and Putnam. 

Oxford Street, corner Seymour. 

Point Street, corner Plain. 

Thayer Street, Thayer and George. 

Elmwood, Vineyard Street. 

Primary and Intermediate Schools. 

First District.— Benefit Street, corner Halsey; Camp 
Street, between Cypress and Private; Graham Street- 
Walling Street. 

Second District.— Meeting Street, corner South Court; 
Thayer Street, corner of Meeting; Arnold Street, 
corner Brook; East Street, corner Transit; Manning 
Street. 

Third District.— Federal Street, west of grammar 
school; Fountain Street (occupied in part for ward 
room purposes and by State for Deaf and Dumb 
School); Sabin Street, rear of preceding; Carpenter 
Street, corner Pallas; Harris Avenue; Ring Street, 
near Knight; Africa Street; Atwell's Avenue (new) 
corner Messenger. 

Fourth District.— Elm Street; Richmond Street, near 
Ship; Hospital, corner Borden; Beacon Street. 

Fifth District— Summer Street, corner Pond; Ham- 
mond Street; Friendship Street, corner Portland; 
warren Street, corner Fuller; Mesaer Street, corner 
Willow; Somerset Street. 

Sixth DiSTRicT.-Public Street ; Eddy Street; Thurber 
Avenue, corner Plain; Jackson Avenue; Bellevue 
Avenue; Greenwich Street, junction of Potter's ave- 
nue and Greenwich street; Potter's Avenue, corner 
Brattle; Chester Avenue; Aldrich Street; Harriet 
Street; Plain Street. 

Seventh District.— Chalkstone Avenue, corner Wayne 
str ee t ; Berlin Street, corner Chalkstone avenue; 
West River; Manton Aveuue Intermediate (in Gram- 
mar School building) ; Julian Street, corner Capron; 
Admiral Street; Amherst Street; Smith Street, cor- 
ner Duke, near Chalkstone avenue; Coville Street. 



DRIVES. 

Drive No. 1.— Swan Point Cemetery.— Starting from 
Market sq., via North Main St., passing the First 
Baptist Church and State House, to Olney St., Oluey 
St., passing Hope Reservoir and station, to Swan 
Point road, Swan Point road to Cemetery and Butler 
Hospital. Returning, via Swan Point road to Buller 
ave., Butler ave. to Angell st., Angel" to Hope, Hope, 
passing Dexter Asylum and Friends' S. hool, to Reser- 
voir, through Thayer st. to Waterman, Waterman, 
passing Brown University, to Prospect, Prospect to 
George, George to Benefit, Benefit, passing Athenaniin 
and Court House, to College st., College st. to Market 
sq. 

Drive No. 2.— Swan Point and Pawtucket.— Via drive 
No. 1 to Swan Point Cemetery, aud Swan Point road 
to Pawtucket, through Pawtucket to Ea-it ave , East 
ave. to Olney St., Olney to North Main, North Main 
to Market sq. 



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7o 

Drive No. 3.— An pell Street and East Bide.— Starting 
from Market sq., via North Main to Waterman, 
Waterman to Prospect. Prospect to Augell, Augell to 
Butler ave., Butler a ve to Waterman St., waterman 
to Blackstone ave.. Blackstone ave. to Glen ave. Re- 
turning, via Blackstone ave. to Waterman, Water- 
man to Hope. Hope to Sheldon, Sheldon to Benefit, 
Benefit, passing the Athenauim, Court House, and 
State House, to North Main St., North Main to Mar- 
ket sq. 

Drive No. 4.— Broadway, Manton and Chalk stone aves 
— Starting from Market sq., via Westminster St. 
tuAborn. Aboru to Broadway, passing Sans Sonet 
Garden and St. Mary's Church, to Manton ave., Man- 
ton ave., through Dyerville. to Chalkstone ave., 
Chalkstone ave. to Smith st., Smith to North Main, 
North Main to Market sq. 

Drive No. 5.— Elmwood and Roger Williams Park- 
Starting from Market sq.. via Westminster St., to 
Weybosset, Weybosset to Dorraiice, Dorrance, pass- 
ing Narragansett Hotel, to Pme St., Pine to Broad, 
Broad to Roger Williams Park, through the Park 
avenues, to Elmwood ave.. Elmwood ave, to Green- 
wich, Greene ich to Broad. Broad to Weybosset, Wey- 
bosset to Westminster, Westminster to Market sq. 

Drive No. 6.— Broad Street and Pawtuxet.— Starting 
from Market sq., via Dyer st. to Friendship, Friend- 
ship to Broad, Broad to Pawtuxet, Cakland Beach 
and Rocky Point. Returning, via same. 

Drive No. 7.— Sockanossett Reservoir, Pumping Station, 
and State Prison.— Starting from Market sq., via 
drive No. 6 to Broad st., Broad to Greenwich, Green- 
wich to Reservoir ave., Reservoir ave. to Sockanos- 
sett Reservoir, Sockanossett Reservoir to Pumping 
Station, Pumpinr Station to State Prison and Farm. 
Returning, via Pontiac road to Reservoir ave., Res- 
ervoir ave. to Greenwich st., Greeuwich st. to Broad, 
Broad to Weybosset, Weybosset to Westminster, 
Westminster to Market sq. 

Drive No. 8.— Broadway, Rocky Hill and Roger Wil- 
liams Park.— Via drives No. 4 to Plainfield St., tflain- 
field st. to Rocky Hill road, Rocky Hill Road to Cran- 
ston st., Cranston st. to Fenner ave., Fenner ave. to 
Reservoir ave., Reservoir ave. to Park ave., Park ave. 
to Elmwood ave., Elmwood ave to Roger Williams 
Park, through the park drives to Broad st., Broad to 
Friendship, Friendship to Richmond, Richmond to 
Broad, Broad to Weybosset, Weybosset to Westmin- 
ster, Westminster to Market sq. 

Drive No. 9.— Broadway, Fruit Hill and Smith St.— Via 
drive No. 4 to Chalkstcne ave., Chalkstone ave. to 
Fruit Hill ave.. Fruit Hill ave. to Fruit Hill, down 
Smith st. to Park, Park to Gaspee, Gaspee to Cove, 
Cove to Exchange place and Market sq. 

Drive No. 10.— Woonasquatuck Valley.— Through Olney- 
ville, via Broadway and Manton ave., or through At- 
well's ave. to Manton ave., thence past the villages of 
Dyerville, Manton, Lymausville, Allendale, Centre- 
dale. Graniteville, Graystone, Allen ville, to Georgia- 
ville. Returning same way until junction of Chalk- 
stone ave. is reached, then via Drive No. 9. 

Drive No. 11.— Warwick Shore.— Via drive No. 6, down 
Broad st. to Silver Hook road, thence to Rocky Point 
road, turning after some miles into River road, pas- 
sing thereon Riverdale, Shawomet Beach, River View, 
Bay Side, and then continuing on to Rocky Point. 
Returning by Warwick Neck, Old Warwick, Hills 
Grove, Pontiac, State Farm, Pumping Station, Reser- 
voir ave. and Greenwich st. to the city. 

Drive No. 12.— iPawtuxet Valley.— Cranston st. to Cran- 
ston Print-Works, thence through the county to Na- 
tick over the hill to Phenix, then across country to 
Anthony and Quidnick, and return through villages 
of Arciic.River Point, and Pontiac, and back to city as 
per Drive No. 11. 

Drive No. 13.— Blackstone Valley to Pawtucket via 
drive No 2, or through \\ aterman. Benefit, North 
Main, and Pawtucket Pike; then through the num- 
erous villages on banks of river; returning same 
way or through East Providence. 

Drive No. 14.— Warren and Bristol— Through East 
Providence, past Silver Spring, Riverside, across the 
town of Barrington to Warren and Bristol, return- 
ing same way. Or this drive can have for its termi- 
nation Nayatt Point. 

Drive No. 15.— Hunt's Alills.— Four miles from Wash- 
ington Bridge; route through East Providence. 



POLICE DEPARTMENT. 



Headquarters, City Hall, Exchange Place. 

1st District station house. Canal, corner Hayinarket. 



2d District station bonse.eorner Martin and Ashburton. 

3d District stat'on house, Wickeuden. 

4tb District station house, 33 Knight. 

5th District station house, Plain, near Lockwood. 

6th District station house, Capron, near Julian. 



FIRE DEPARTMENT. 



Headquarters, City Hall, Exchange place. 

Hose Co. No. I, Exchange Place. 

" " 2, South Main. 

" 3, Pond. 

" 4, Mill. 

" " 6, Benevolent. 

" " 7, Richmond. 

" " 9, Atwell's avenue, corner America. 

" 11, Public. 
" " 13, Central. 

" " 15, Wickend»n. 

Steamer No. 5, North Main, corner Doyle avenue. 
" " 8, Harrison, near High. 

" " 10, Burnside. 

" " 12, Smith, corner Orms. 

" 14. Putnam. 
Hook and Ladder No. 1, Exchange Place. 
" " " 2, Harrison. 

" " 3, Smith. 

" " " 4, Wickenden. 

" " 5, Burnside. corner Public. 

" " " 6, Atwell's avenue, cor. America. 

Protective Co No.l. Exchange Place. 
Chemical Engine, No. 1 Richmond. 
•' •' •' 2, Benevolent. 



EXPRESS COMPANIES. 



Adams, Dorrance, corner Broad, 

Earle & Prew's, 60 Eddy, corner Fulton. 

Hopkins Transfer Co., 1 Boston Depot. 

International Express Co., 21 Washington Street, op- 
posite Citv Hall. 

New York and Boston Dispatch. 58 Eddy. 

New Express Co., 50 Dorrance, corner Broad. 

Providence & Worcester R. R. Express Department, 58 
Eddy. 

Taunton and New Bedford Express, Dorrance, corner 
Broad. 

XT. S. and Canada Express Co.. 58 Eddy. 

United States Express, 144 and 146 Broad. 



TELEGRAPH OFFICES. 

American Telephone and Telegraph Co. ,54 Westminste r 
Mutual Union Co., 54 Westminster. 
Providence District Messenger Co., 54 Westminster. 
Providence Telephone Co., Central Office, Butler Ex- 
change. 

Providence Telephone Co., Public Station, 54 Westmin- 
ster Street. 
United Lines Telegraph Co., 18 Westminster. 
Western Union Co., 6 Weybosset. 

" " " Butler Exchange. 

" " " Central Passenger Depot. 

" " " Narragansett Hotel. 

" Fox Point Wharf. 

" " " India Point Freight Department. 

" " " Wilkes Barre Pier, East Prov. 

Mutual Union Branch Office, 1076 High, Olney ville. 



DAILY NEWSPAPERS. 



Evening Bulletin, 2 \ . „ 
Evening Telegram and Sunday Telegram, No. 7 Wey- 
bosset. 
Providence Daily Journal, 2 Weybosset. 



MILITIA ARMORIES. 

Burnside Guards (colored), corner Winter and Crans- 
ton streets, near junction of High. 

Emmet Guards, 129 Westminster. 

First Light Infantry, Infantry Building, South Main. 

Horse Guards, 128 North Main. 

Meagher Guards, corner Dorrance and Broad, old In- 
fantry building, entrance on Dorrance. 

Marine Artillery, State Arsenal, Benefit, near Meeting. 

Slocum Light Guard, Broad Street. 

United Train Artillery, Canal Street. 

Wolfe Tone Guards, 54 North Main. 



PROVIDENCE. 



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WHARV.ES. 



|;ro\\ us. i.T. R. White A: Si nisi, India. 

Butler's Wharf, opp. 129 Dyer. 

Continental Steamboat Co.'s, Dyer. 

Clarke's wharf, foot of Dorrauce. 

Duncan Wharf, 148 Dyer, foot of Peck. 

Ferry wharf, Dyer. 

Fall River Steamboat Co.'s, opp. 71 South Water. 

Fox Point wharf, India. 

Gas Co.'s wharf, Langley. 



Lonsdale wharf, India. 
Lehigh & Wilkes BarreCoal Co.'s pier.E. Providence. 
Providence & Stonington R. R. Co.'s pier, Allen's ave. 
Providence Coal Co.'s Wharf, foot of Dorrauce. 

RAILROADS. 

Old Colony, Providence division (formerly Boston & 
Providence.) 
New York and New England. 
Providence, Warren & Bristol. 
Providence & Springfield. 
Providence & Worcester 
New York, Providence & Boston. 
Pawtuxet Valley Branch. 
Warwick & Oakland Beach. 

RAILROAD STATIONS AND STEAM 
BOAT LANDINGS. 

Union Station, Exchange Place. 

Providence & Spring-field, Gaspee Street. 

Warren & Bristol, Fox Point. 

Continental Steamboats, Dyer, foot Hay. 

Providence & Fall River Steamers, South Water. 

Shore Transportation Steamers, South Water, near 
Crawford Street Bridge. 

New York Steamers, Fox Point. 

Norfolk and Baltimore Steamers, Lonsdale Wharf. 

Seaconnet Point Steamers, South Water, near Craw 
ford Street Bridge. 

Winsor Line Steamers for Philadelphia, Ives Wharf 
India Street. 

STEAMERS. 

Continental Steamboat Co., Dyer. 

Providence & Fall River Steamboat Co., So. Water. 

Providence & New York Steamboat Line, Fox Point. 

Providence, Norfolk & Baltimore Steamship Line, 
Lonsdale wharf. 

Shore Transportation Co., South Water, near Crawford 
Street Bridge. 

Wiusor's Line for Philadelphia, Ives wharf. 

HORSE RAILROADS. 

Depot, Weybosset B ^idge. 
High Street and Olneyville. Color of car, green 
and white; signal light, green. From Market sq , via 
Westminster and High sts , to Olueyville; returning 
via High, Broad, Weybosset and Westminster sts., to 
Market square. 

* Governor Street From Market sq. via South Main. 

Wickenden, Governor, Waterman, Guno, Augell sts., 
and Butler ave. to Blackstone Park. 

* Brook Street.— From Market Sq., via South Main, 

Wickenden, Brook, Meeting, and Thayer sts. to 
Olney st. 

Plainfield Street — From Turk's Head, same as 
High st. to Olneyville, then via Plainfield st. 

Manton Avenue.— From Turk's Head, same as High st. 
to Olneyville, then via Manton ave. to Dyerville. 

Swan Point Cemetery.— Governor st. car to Black- 
stone Park, then via bus through Butler avenue and 
Swan Point road. 
* On the Governor and Brook street routes, continuous 

round trips are run from Olneyville via High. 

Elm wood.— Color of car, red and white: signal light, 
red. From Market Sq., via Westminster, Mathew- 
son, Broad and Greenwich sts. Returning, via 
Greenwich, Broad, Weybosset and Westminster sts., 
to Market Sq. 

Elmwood and Smith's Hill.— From Market Sq., via 
North Main, Mill, Charles, Orms and Smith sts., to 
Ruggles St., Smith's Hill. 

Prairie Avenue.— Color of car. straw and white : signal 
light, blue and white. Via Westminster, Mathew- 
son, Broad, Chestnut, Friendship, Beacon and Point 
sts., and Prairie ave., to South Providence stable. 
Return, via Prairie ave., Point, Beacon, Friendship, 
Richmond, Broad, Weybosset, to Market Sq. 

Camp Street.— Prairie ave. csr from South Provi- 
dence to Market Sq., then via North Main, Olney, and 
Camp sts. Return same way. 



Elmwood Avenue Route.— Color of car, Pullman; 
signal light, dark star on white ground. From Mar- 
ket Sq., via South Main, Wickenden, Governor, 
Waterman and Guno sts. Return same to Market 
Sq., then via Westminster, Mathewson, Broad, Green- 
wich sts., and Elmwood ave. to Roger Williams Park. 

Pawtuoket.— Color of car, straw and white: signal 
light, straw. From Market So., via North Main, 
Mill, Charles, Randall, North Main sts., and Paw- 
tucket ave.. Garden, Main sts., Pawtucket. to corner 
Broad and Main sts. Returning, via same route to 
Market Sq. 

Branch Avenue.— Color of ear. light blue; signal light, 
blue cross on white ground. From Market Sq., via 
North Main st , and Branch ave. to Wanskuck. Re- 
turn same way. 

Bboad Street and Pawtuxet — Color of car, maroon- 
signal light, purple. From Market Sq,. via Westmin- 
ster, Mathewson and Broad sts., to South Providence, 
and via Broad st. to Pawtuxet. Return via Thur- 
ber'save., Broad and Weybosset sts., to Market Sq 

Broadway and Olneyville.— Color of car, blue and 
white; signal light, blue. From Market Sq., via 
Westminster, Jackson sts., and Broadway to Olney- 
ville. Returning, via Broadway. Aborn, Washing- 
ton sts., Exchange Place and Exchange st. to Market 
Square. 

Cranston.— Color of car, red and green; signal light, 
red and green. From Market So, via Westminster, 
High, and Cranston sts., to stable, and by transfer 
car to Cranston Print Works. Returning, via Crans- 
ton, High, Broad, and Weybosset sts., to Market sq. 

Eddy Street.— Color of car, green and red; signal light, 
straw. From Turk's Head via Westminster, Mathew- 
son, Broad. Richmond and Eddy sts., and Thurber's 
ave., to South Providence stable. Return Thurber's 
ave.. Eddy. Richmond, Broad, Weybosset to Turk's 
Head. 

Mount Pleasant.— Color of car, drab ; signal light, red, 
with white centre. From Market Sq., via Westmin- 
ster, Jackson, Federal and Bradford sts., Atwell's 
ave. and Academy ave, to Mount Pleasant. Return 
same way to Federal; then via Broadway, Aborn, 
Washington, Exchange Place, and Exchange St., to 
Market Sq. 

East Providence.— Color of car, orange ; signal light, 
black crescent on orange. From Market Sq., via 
South Main, Pike, Traverse, Tockwotton, East 
Providence Bridge, and Warren ave., Potter st. and 
Broadway. Return same way; connect at Broad- 
way Six Corners with bus for Rumford and East 
Providence Centre. 

Bristol R. R. and N. Y. Boat — Color of car, straw 
and green; signal light white From Exchange Place 
via Exchange Street. Westminster, Market Sq., Smith 
Main. Return same way. Cars connect with all 
trains, both ways, on the Providence, Warren & 
Bristol Railroad, leaving Exchange Place. 

Chestnut, Point and Fmendship Sts.— Color of car, 
light yellow; signal light, orange and black checks. 
From Turk's Head, via Westminster, Mathewson 
Broad, Chestnut, Bassett, Hospital, Point, Friend- 
ship, broad. Public, Greenwich. Return same way, 
except through Weybosset instead of Mathewson 
from Broad st. 



RATES OF HACK AND EXPRESS 

FARE. 

Hack Fare. 

For each passenger from one place to another 

within the City, not exceeding one mile, . 50 cts. 

For each additional mile or fraction of a mile. . 25 cts. 

Children from 4 to 12 years of age, if more than one, 

or accompanied by an adult, . . . half-price. 



Each subsequent hour, 



50 



liaggage, 



One Trunk and one Valise, Saddlebag, Portman- 
teau, bundle, or other articles used in travel- 
ing, Free. 

Every additional Trunk or other article, . . lu cts. 

Express Fare. 

For the transportation of any article weighing 
not more than 300 lbs., from one place to 
another within the City, not exceeding one 

mile, 30 cts. 

For the transportation of any article weighing as 

aforesaid, more than one mile 50 cts. 

For each additional article weighing as aforesaid, 15 cts. 
All distances shall be computed by straight lines on 
the Map of the City, and each owner or driver having 
charge of such Hackney Carriage or Express Wagon, 
shall, at all times, when using the same, have a copy of 
said Map in said carriage or wagon, which shall be ex- 
hibited when demanded. 



CHAPTER 11. 



LOCATION" INCORPORATION FIRST SETTLEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRY- 

FIRST COTTON MANUFACTURING CENTRE CHARACTER OF INDUSTRIES — BRIDGES- 

WATERWORKS RAILROAD SHIPMENTS CENTRAL FALLS WALKS ABOUT TOWN- 

WOODLAWN LINCOLN. 




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mmmm 



The second 
place in point of 
population in 
the state of 
Rhode Island is 
the city of Paw- 
tucket, which is 
situated four 
miles northeast 
of Providence 
on the Black- 
stone River. 
Paw tucket is an 
Indian word sig- 
nifying a fall of 
water, and was 
given to this lo- 
cality because 
the fresh waters 
of the Black- 
stone here meet the tides of Narragansett Bay by being precipitated over rocky 
ledges. Below the falls, the tidal basin or estuary extends for about five miles 
to India Point, where it unites with Providence Harbor, and is known as the 
Seekonk River. It is navigable for vessels of light draught as far as the lowest 
bridge, a short distance below the falls. 

While the name Pawtucket has since the earliest settlement been applied 
to this locality on both the banks of river, yet only since 1862 has it been 
the designation of a Rhode Island town. The territory on the eastern bank 
was originally a part of Massachusetts, and was at first in the town of 
Rehoboth, and then a portion of Seekonk. In 182S it was incorporated as 
a Massachusetts town under the name Pawtucket, and in 1862, by the settle- 
ment of the boundary question between Rhode Island and Massachusetts, it 
was annexed to Rhode Island. The village of Pawtucket on the west side of 
the river was in the limits of the town of North Providence, and continued in 





VIEW OF NORTH MAIN STREET, PAWTUCKET. 



74 



PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 



that jurisdic- 
tion until 

1874, when it 
was consoli- 
dated with 
the town of 
Pawtucket on 
the east side. 
Pawtu eke t 
was incorpo- 
rated as a city 
by an act 
which went 
into effect 
January 4, 
iSS'6. For 
some years an 
agitation with 
that end in 
view had 
been go i n g 
on, and dur- 
ing that pe- 
riod it was 
customary to 

VIEW ON MAIN STREET, PAWTUCKET. ca jj p aw . 

tucket " the largest town" in the country, and it was undoubtedly the largest 
community in the country governed under the form of a town. 

Pawtucket has always been a manufacturing place, and it has been such 
because of the natural water-power afforded by the falls. Twenty-five years 
after Roger Williams and his companions had made their settlement in Provi- 
dence, Joseph Jencks purchased sixty acres of land near Pawtucket Falls, erected 
a forge and a saw-mill, and began the manufacture of iron and wooden tools 
and implements. Other industries soon followed, and the place was a work- 
shop for the adjoining commercial and agricultural communities. While Prov- 
idence owed much of its early growth to the development of commerce, Paw- 
tucket was wholly built up by its manufactures. 

The honor of being the place where cotton was first successfully manu- 
factured in the New World by the modern methods invented in England belongs 
to Pawtucket. The machines were erected by Samuel Slater, a young English- 
man, who built them without drawings to guide him, wholly from recol- 
lection. At first Slater worked for Moses Brown, of Providence, but subse- 
quently he established mills in connection with partners, — his wife's relatives, 
the Wilkinsons, — and began the development of an industry that has grown 
into the greatest in the state and one of the most important in the country. 

The two sides of the river, although in different states until 1862, and under 




PAWTUCKET 



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PAWTUCKET FALLS, IN 1789. 

separate town governments until 1874, were really one community in business 
and sentiment, and since their union the progress of the place has been rapid 
and continuous. 

Although the cotton manufacture is chief, there are many other industries, 
among which are large machine shops, foundries, tanneries, leather belting and 
lace leather establishments, wadding works, print works, hair cloth mills, dye 
works, manufactories of doors, blinds, and builders' materials, the manufacture 
of bolts and screws, lumber and saw mills, box manufactories, spool mills, jew- 
elry shops, paper box shops, paper mills, etc. 

The manufacture of cotton cloth is not very extensively carried on in Paw- 
tucket, the majority of the establishments engaged in the cotton industry here 
making yarns or thread, and as a consequence Pawtucket is probably the most 
important centre for these branches of the manufacture in the country. 

The first bridge built over the river at the falls was a wooden one erected 
in 1763. This bridge was rebuilt several times, and in 1S58 the present substantial 
stone bridge was erected. A short distance above is an iron bridge erected in 
1872, and still further above are two iron bridges, erected respectively in 1868 
and 1871, connecting the east side with Central Falls. 

Below the Main Street bridge is a high stone bridge which crosses the 
Seekonk on nine arches from the foot of Division Street. This bridge prac- 
tically marks the limits of navigation. From it a fine view of the surround- 
ings can be obtained. 

Pawtucket has an excellent system of water-works, which were put in 
operation January 31, 1878, and have since that time satisfactorily supplied with 
water not only Pawtucket, but also East Providence, Central Falls, and other 
small places in the neighborhood. There are two reservoirs, one located two 
and a half miles from the business centre, and 300 feet above tide water. The 
other is a new reservoir recently built in Cumberland. 



76 PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 

The railroad shipments to and from a place are an excellent index of the 
extent of its business. During the month of December, 1SS7, the Providence 
& Worcester Railroad received at its Pawtucket station 4,188 tons of freight 
and dispatched 3,262 tons, a total of 7,480 tons. December is said to be an 
average month, November being about the heaviest month in the year for 
freight ; at this rate the amount received and dispatched during the year would 
be about 100,000 tons. This is outside of any coal, bricks, much lumber, and 
a great deal of iron in bars, which come by water. The freight received in 
Pawtucket is lumber, cotton, machinery, and general merchandise in cases. 
When the Providence & Worcester railroad was first built it was thought that 
Pawtucket would be nothing but a passenger station, and no freight station was 
erected until about 1856. In 1858-59 when the present depot master and 
agent, Mr. D. R. Arnold, came to work for the corporation as agent, he did all 
the work as clerk, ticket-seller, express agent, etc., and the only other employes 
about the station were a baggage master and one laborer. There was at the 
same time only one express wagon and one hack. The whole express business 
did not amount to more than a dollar a week. In contrast to this, there are now 
employed between thirty-five and forty men in the freight and passenger busi- 
ness of the railroad, besides those engaged in the express business. The 
amount of business now done at the Woodlawn station both in passenger and 
freight is much greater than was done at Pawtucket in 1S58. 

Central Falls is a portion of the populous community of which the greater 
part is Pawtucket. This village, as it is sometimes called, although it is not 
that in reality, is the northwest corner of the place, and proportionally is as 
populous as any section of like size in Pawtucket. But it is in the town of 
Lincoln, and consequently is under separate government in local matters. The 
logic of events will undoubtedly in the future bring it under the jurisdiction of 
the city of Pawtucket, as its business and other interests are similar. The whole 
place then will be a city of considerably over thirty thousand inhabitants. 

The best way to see Pawtucket is to start from the railroad station. 
Crossing the tracks from the platform and proceeding down Broad Street, a 
large, beautiful, brick building on the left attracts attention. This contains 
the offices, barn, and station of the Pawtucket Street Railway Company, and 
was built in 1886, the horse car lines being opened for travel November 30, 
1 886. Continuing down Broad Street, Trinity Square is soon reached, which 
is formed by the junction of Broad, North Union, and Main streets. On the 
left, on corner of Broad and Main streets, is the Benedict House, the leading 
hotel in Pawtucket. It is a large wooden building, with stores on the ground 
floor. On the other corner, and fronting on North Union Street and Trinity 
Square, is Sheldon Block, a two-story, wooden structure containing many stores 
and offices. The Pawtucket Recoi-d, a weekly newspaper, is published in 
this building. 

Turning to the left around the Sheldon building into Main Street, we enter 
the principal retail section of the city, from this point until Main Street Square 
is reached, the street being lined on both sides with dry goods, clothing, 
grocery, and miscellaneous stores. The first particularly noticeable structure 



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77 



is the new Weeden 
Block, an artistic look- 
ing brick building, 
which is seen a short 
distance below on the 
southeast corner of Main 
Street and Park Place. 
Before going further it 
would be well to make 
a detour and walk up 
Park Place, which here 
enters Main Street. A 
few steps bring us oppo- 
site the Park Place Con- 
gregational Church, a 
fine structure of brick 
and wood. A little fur- 
ther and Wilkinson 
Park is reached, which 
is a triangular piece of 
ground inclosed with an 
iron railing, with walks 
through the centre, lined 
with trees, and laid out 
in grass plats. 1 1 i s 
bounded by Cross and 
George streets, and Park 
Place, on all of which 
there are beautiful resi- 
dences. At the upper 
end of Park Place is St. 
Paul's Episcopal 
Church. 

Returning to Main 
Street, and proceeding 
down that street, Music 
Hall Building on the 
right-hand side, is first 
noticed. This is the lar- 
gest public building in 
the city. It was erected 
in 1SS0, contains a large 
hall, much used for dra- 
matic entertainments, 
fairs, lectures, etc., and 




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PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 




there are many stores and offices in it. 
On the left a short distance below is 
Dexter Block, and with a building in- 
tervening, is Dexter Building, on the 
southwest corner of Main Street and 
East Avenue. The latter building is 
of pressed brick and is very finely orna- 
mented in its trimmings, being the 
most expensive and beautiful structure 
on the street. It was built soon after 
the close of the War of the Rebellion. 
The United States government occu- 
pies the front of the first floor for the 
post-office. In this building are the 
offices of the Providence County Sav- 
ings Bank. Across Main Street from 
the Dexter Building is a plain, old- 
fashioned looking brick edifice, with 
stores on the ground floor, and contain- 
ing the offices of the Pawtucket Institu- 
tion for Savings. 

Main Street here widens out and is 
called Main Street Square. Out of it to 
the north runs North Main Street, while 
to the east Main Street continues. There are several large buildings on the 
square, the finest and most conspicuous being the combined Miller and Spencer 
brick block, erected in 1873 and 1874. On the front of this building is a large 
clock, readily seen when coming down Main Street. This building contains 
the Pawtucket Free Library. On the square at No. 80 Main Street is the 
office of the Evening- Times, Pawtucket's daily paper, established in 1 
On Main Street Square the fount- 



ain presented in 1880 by H. D. 
Coggeshall, of San Francisco, is 
located. 

Turning into North Main Street 
a large brick building on the right is 
seen. Here is published the Paw- 
tucket Gazette and Chronicle, first 
issued as the Chronicle in 1825. A 
short distance further up the street 
to the right, is the police station 
building where the District Court is 
also held. On the south side of the 
police station is Slater Avenue, a 
short street leading to a number of 
factories and workshops in the rear 



THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. 




THE PUMPING STATION. 



PAWTUCKET. 



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PAWTUCKET FALLS IN 



between the street and the river. Passing down this street we soon come in 
sight of the old Slater Mill, erected in 1793, and the first factory for the manu- 
facture of cotton by modern methods in America. The building as seen to-day 
is a modern looking wooden structure two stories and a half in height, 140 x 40 
or 50 feet wide, and is situated on the river bank, the east end being close to the 
upper falls. Originally the old mill was a small building about forty feet long 
by twenty wide and two stories in height. It has been enlarged at various 
times by the addition in all of about eighty feet to its length, and about twenty- 
five feet to its width, and heightened by a half story. The limits of the original 
structure can yet be easily discerned through means of the old timbers, which 
are of oak and are roughly hewn. They are very hard and durable, and when 
the alterations have been made in the mill the workmen have always found it 
a difficult task to cut into the staunch old oaken beams. Near by the old mill 
is a three-story brick building, built by the original firm, Almy, Brown & 
Slater, and used by them as a retail store at which the country people used to 
exchange their butter, eggs, and poultry for yarn to be woven at home. This 
building is now occupied by Lyons Delany & Company as a spice mill. The 
old mill is still used for its original purpose, and cotton yarns, twines, and thread 
are manufactured on the first floor. In an adjoining building, in the office of 
Mr. J. L. Spencer, who operates the cotton machinery in the old mill, are 
some relics worth seeing. Here is the original lock of the mill door. It is 
eighteen inches in length, nine broad, set in oak, with an iron key nine inches in 



So PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 

length. By turning the key once the bolt is shot out about an inch and a half, 
arid on turning it again it is shot the same length again, making in all about 
three inches. In the olden time the idea seemed to be that the strength of the 
lock was in proportion to the weight of the key. There are a few other relics, 
among them being two spindles of the original machines, with their stands and 
fixtures. 

Returning to North Main Street, let us take the first street to the left, Read 
Street, and going up the hill we are soon on High Street. .Standing on the 
corner of the two streets and looking north along High Street, is seen, near at 
hand on the right, the unpretentious structure of the First Methodist Church ; 
while further on to the left the brown steeple of the High School, formerly the 
church of the Second Baptist Society, but devoted to its present use since about 
1S74 ; and still further, on the left, the white steeple of the Church of Our Father, 
Universalist. Going down the street southward, the First Baptist Church, a 
beautiful wooden building, with a fine spire, is passed on the right, and then on 
the left is the substantial brick building erected in 1871 as a town record build- 
ing, and now used for that purpose and for the city offices. A few steps more, 
down a steep incline, brings us again into Main Street Square. 

Starting out of the square through Main Street to the east, the bridge is 
soon reached. Looking in either direction it is easy to apprehend the fact that 
manufacturing is carried on here extensively, as on both sides of the stream are 
tall buildings and factories built close to the water's edge. Looking north, the 
falls which give the place its name are seen almost directly under the bridge. 
They are formed by irregular rocky ledges, and the water boils and foams over 
them. A short, distance above is a dam, and. on the bank at its westerly end 
can be seen the old Slater mill with its belfry. The extensive brick factories 
below the bridge on the eastern bank are those of Darius GofF & Sons, manu- 
facturers of worsted braid and mohair plushes. The wooden building between 
these factories and the bridge, was formerly a cotton mill, but paper is now man- 
ufactured here. Crossing the bridge to the east side, the foot of Broadway is soon 
reached. Let us first, however, go up Main Street, and a short walk brings us 
to the corner of School Street, looking down which on the right hand side is 
seen a low building with the name Town Hall on the front. This building was 
used from the creation of the town of Pawtucket in 1S62, until the formation of 
the city, as the place of the town-meetings, and is now used as the voting place 
for the second ward. The adjoining building, with the words Washington Hall 
on the front, was the place of worship of the First Free Baptist Society until 
they erected their present edifice, when they sold it to the town. Just beyond 
School Street, on Main, is the Trinity Episcopal Church, a picturesque stone 
building. A few steps further, Main Street runs into Walcott, and this is the 
region of fine residences, which can be seen in all directions. Our progress from 
the bridge thus far has been up hill, indicating the excellence of the situation. 

Returning towards the bridge, instead of going up Walcott Street, the junc- 
tion of Walcott and Broadway is soon reached, and between the two streets 
stands the fine building of the Pawtucket Congregational Church. Turning 
into Broadway and proceeding up the street a fine view of the river and the 



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Si 



Exchange Street 
bridge to the left is had, 
and soon on the right 
the First Free Baptist 
Church, a tasteful 
wooden structure is 
passed. A few steps 
above on the opposite 
side of the street, at 
junction of Broadway 
and Summit Street, is 
the handsome resi- 
dence of the Hon. H. 
B. Metcalf. We are 
now at the junction of 
Broadway, Summit, 
and Cottage streets, an 
extensive open space. 
Standing here and 
looking down Cottage 
Street and Broadway, 
very pleasing scenes 
are presented. Each 
street is broad, lined 
with trees and bordered 
with pleasant residen- 
ces, mostly wooden 
structures, with ample 
grounds. As far as 
the eye can see either 
street extends in a 
straight line, diverging 
from the common cen- 
tre where the observer 
stands, and the trees 
form an inclosing arch 
which makes the vista 
one of quiet beauty 
with the added air of 
mystery often felt when 
looking at anything the 
end of which is not in 
view and can only be 

surmised. This region of the city is the place of the finest residences, as its 
elevated situation makes it very desirable, and Broadway, Cottage, and Walcott 
streets are far excellence the residence section. 




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PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 



Passing up Broadway, Exchange Street is soon reached. Going down this 
street the works of the Rhode Island Card Board Company, Perry Oil Com- 
pany, and several jewelry shops are passed on the left, and then the Exchange 
Street bridge is reached. From this position are seen some of the chief manu- 
facturing establishments in the city. Northward, on the eastern bank is the large 
factory of Greene & Daniels, while nearer on the other bank is the Dempsey 
Bleachery & Dye Works. But the view is not wholly of factories, for the banks 
of the river are in many places clothed with trees and abound in picturesque 
nooks. Continuing along Exchange Street, we cross North Main Street, pass 
on the right corner of Hamilton Street Infantry Hall, a low wooden structure 
used as a drill hall by local militia, and a similar building, Armory Hall, on 
the corner of High Street. A short distance further and we emerge on Ex- 
change Place at the railroad station. 

Starting again from the railroad, we retrace our steps to Trinity Square, 
but from there turn to the right along Main Street. Here at the corner of Main 
and Broad streets is the terminus of the horse-car line from Providence. Before 
the establishment of the local lines the Providence cars ran to Main Street 
square, connecting there with a branch to Central Falls. " A short distance up, 
on Bailey Street, which leads out of Main at the first turn, is the establishment 
of Linton Brothers & Company, card board and glazed paper manufacturers. 
Following the horse-car track along Main Street we turn two corners, first to 
the left, second to the right, still keeping on Main Street, and soon are in sight of 
the two mills of the Slater Cotton Company, the oldest of which was erected in 
1863. Across the street, on the corner of Pine, are the extensive machine shops 
of James Brown. Turning up Pine Street, crossing the Providence and Worces- 
ter Railroad track, and passing the works of the Union Wadding Company on 
the right, the new freight station of the Providence and Worcester Railroad is 
reached. It is a large brick building, of ample length and width, probably the 
best of its kind in the state, having plenty of cartage-room around it on all 
sides. It was built in 1SS2 to 



meet the growing necessity for 
better accommodations. Beyond 
the freight depot the large works 
of the E. Jenckes Manufacturing 
Company, makers of belt hooks, 
ring travelers, and manufacturers' 
supplies, loom up conspicuously. 
Next, on the right hand side of 
Pine Street, is a long, low, wooden 
building, the works of the Paw- 
tucket Manufacturing Company, 
manufacturers of bolts, nuts, wash- 
ers, etc. A short distance beyond 
on the left is a brick building which 
might with truth be called elegant. 
It looks like a beautiful mansion 




THE OLD SLATER MILL. 



PAWTUCKET. 



83 



house. This is the 
office of the Conant * 
Thread Company, 
and their factories, 
great, massive build- 
ings, cover a large 
extent of ground for 
a long distance 
along Pine Street, 
and for an equal dis- 
tance back. About 
half way down the 
front of the property 
ot the thread works, 
on the opposite side 
of Pine Street, are 
the works of the 
Fales & Jenks Ma- 
chine Company, 
manufacturers of 
cotton and woolen 
machinery, fire 
pumps, and fric- 
tional g ea r i n g . 
Going up Pine 
Street a short dis- 
tance further, we 
turn down Cross 
Street. This is in 
Central Falls. First 
on the right are a 
row of factory tene- 
ments. Across an 

open lot to the left are the low buildings of the American File Works. A 
walk of about half a mile along Cross Street, through a section of residences, 
brings us out on Broad Street again, crossing which and continuing on we 
emerge on Mill Street, Central Falls, a continuation of North Main Street, Paw- 
tucket. On the northeast corner of this street and Cross Street is the large 
brick factory of the Pawtucket Hair Cloth Company, extending from Mill 
Street to the river, and built in 1864. Cross Street leads on to the Central 
Avenue Bridge, which crosses the river at this point. Looking north from this 
bridge, on the west bank are seen, just above the hair cloth factory, the brick 
mill and adjoining wooden buildings of the Central Falls Woolen Company, 
and beyond them the brick factory of the Stafford Manufacturing Company, 
thread manufacturers. 

Crossing the bridge we are again in the corporate limits of Pawtucket, and 




PARK PLACE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. 



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PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 




TRINITY CHURCH. 



passing up Central Avenue, the 
street leading from the bridge, the 
large factory of Greene & Daniels is 
on our right. Going up the street, 
the elevation called Pleasant View, 
on the east bank of the river, is 
reached. On the streets nearest the 
mill are factory tenements, but there 
are also in this section many dwell- 
ings of a better class. Traversing 
Pleasant View through various 
streets we make a circuit and come 
out on North Main Street, a con- 
tinuation of Mill Street, Central 
Falls ; as we descend the hill tow- 
ard the bridge, in sight across the 
river is the large factory of the 
United States Cotton Company alongside the Providence & Worcester railroad 
track, and south of it looms up lt Our Lady of the Sacred Heart," the French 
Roman Catholic Church, in Central Falls. The Providence Division of the Old 
Colony, formerly the Boston & Providence Railroad, makes a junction with the 
Providence & Worcester opposite the factory of the United States Cotton Com- 
pany. On the right-hand side of the street approaching the bridge is Collins 
Brothers' Machine Shop, and on the 
opposite side the Eagle Dye Works. 
Crossing the bridge, we are again in 
Central Falls. Proceeding up Mill 
Street until Central Street is reached, 
let us walk up this thoroughfare. On 
the northeast corner of Central and 
Mill streets is the establishment of E. 
L. Freeman & Son, printers to the 
state, and publishers of the Weekly 
\ Isltor. Central Street, from Mill 
up to the railroad track, is the chief 
retail business section of Central Falls. 
At the further side of the track is the 
Central Falls station of the Providence 
& Worcester railroad. A short dis- 
tance further up is the beautiful build- 
ing of the Baptist Church, on the cor- 
ner of Broad and Central streets. In 
this neighborhood are a number of 
palatial residences. Turning into 
Broad Street we turn toward Paw- 
tucket ; the line is soon crossed, and 
about half way down on the right- 





THE UNIVERSALIST CHURCH. 



PAWTUCKET. 



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THE OLD QUAKER MEETING-HOUSE, LINCOLN. 



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hand side is the Broad Street Theatre, where the polo games are played 
few steps more bring us again to our starting point, the railroad station. 

Woodlawn is the name applied to the southern portion of Pawtucket on the 
west side. The Providence & Worcester Railroad has a station here and a 
branch road leads from the place to Saylesville, about three miles distant. Other 
localities in the city are Pleasant View, on the heights east of the river opposite 
Central Falls ; East Pleasant View, on the northeast, near the Lebanon Mills ; 
Bunnell's, near the print works of the name, and Ingramville, both in the 
southern part of the city on the east side. 



Notes on some of the Industries of the City. — One of the most in- 
teresting of the special manufactures in the line of appliances for use in cotton 
and woolen mills is that conducted at the Excelsior Loom Reed Works, 106 
Broad Street, Pawtucket. Here, by means of machines so well adapted to 
the end in view that they almost do the whole of the work themselves, are 
manufactured the Adamson flexible bevel dent reeds, reinforced with solder, 
and especially adapted for the weaving ot fine worsteds, woolens, and fancy 
cotton goods. This is the only patent reed in the market, and is the property 
of Mr. Adamson, the owner of the establishment. No matter how often or 
how far the wires may be separated from each by the insertion of anything 
between them, they are so constructed as to immediately spring back to their 
original position, while the bevel on each individual wire formed thereon by 
the automatic machinery already mentioned lessens the strain on the warp and 
thereby prevents the breaking of the threads. A large number of the best cot- 
ton and woolen mills in every part of the United States constantly use this reed. 
Mr. Adamson also deals in belting, lace leather, pickers, heddles for woolen 
mills, and general mill supplies. 



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PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT 



Among the enterprising firms of Pawtucket we note especially the Paw- 
tucket Manufacturing Company, whose plant is located at 64 Pine Street. 

This Company was incorporated by act of the General Assembly, May* 
1882, for the purpose of manufacturing bolts, nuts, and machinery used in th e 
manufacture of the same. 

Mr. Stephen A. Jenks, a prominent business man, is president, and Mr. 
George H. Fowler, Treasurer. 

The practical management of the business is in the hands of the agent and 
superintendent, Mr. George H. Webb. The rapid growth which has attended 
this business indicates the increasing demand for goods of a superior quality. 
The foundation was laid December, 1881, and the first bolt headed August 12, 
1882. 




PAWTUCKET MANUFACTURING COMPANY'S WCRKS. 

The building, which is a model of convenience, has all departments located 
on one continuous floor, originally occupying 15,400 square feet of space; but 
to meet the increasing demands of the manufactures an addition of 10,000 
square feet has been made during the past year, making a total of 25,400 square 
feet. It is arranged around a hollow square, in a way to secure ample light and 
ventilation. 

All the special machinery used was designed and built at the works, under 
the direct supervision of Mr. Webb, whose extended experience and superior 
ability as a mechanic enabled him to produce a class of machinery possessing 
many advantages over any heretofore used. As evidence that such is the case, 
this company has furnished nearly every extensive bolt manufacturer in the 
United States with some of their special machinery. They have also made ship- 
ments to Hutchinson, Hollingsworth & Company, of Oldham, England. 

This company is now engaged in the construction of a plant of ten 
machines for the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company of Manchester, N. H., 
also a large press for the Knowles Loom Works of Worcester, Mass., designed 
for punching sheet steel, and will weigh when completed about ten tons. In 



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fact this department of their business has developed so rapidly that their present 
facilities are scarcely large enough to enable them to fill orders now on hand. 

The bolts and nuts made by this corporation are of a superior quality and 
finish, and include all the regular sizes to be found in the market, besides many 
peculiar patterns made only to order. During the first two years after the 
works were established the business doubled and has since been steadily in- 
creasing. 

It would repay any one to visit these works to see the various and in- 
genious methods employed in the process of manufacturing their regular and 




NEW SQUARE AND HEXAGON BOLT CUTTING MACHINE. 

special goods, and one would be both surprised and interested to see the great 
variety of goods required to meet the demands of the market. Great care is ex- 
ercised in selecting stock used, and every new lot of iron is tested by a hydraulic 
testing machine operated by power, which determines the actual tensile strength 
of the metal. By the same means the manufactured bolts are tested before they 
are put on the market. The machine originally employed for this purpose was 
the one in ordinary use, but it did not do the work satisfactorily, hence the re- 
quisite alterations were made to adapt it to the requirements of the business. 
The accompanying cut illustrates their improved machine for forging square and 
hexagon-headed bolts, three-fourths of an inch in diameter, and smaller. New 
designs are continually being turned out and already they have drawings and 
patterns for machines capable of heading bolts one and one-half inches in di- 
ameter. They are now working on a new illustrated chart showing the spe- 
cial machinery they are prepared to furnish. 



SS PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 

Among the oldest established and best known bleacheries and dye works in 
this part of the country are those of Robert D. Mason & Company, 75 East Ave- 
nue, Pawtucket. The business was first established here in 1805 by Mr. Barney 
Merry, whose son, Mr. Samuel Merry, succeeded him in 1847. ^ n X S66 Mr. 
Robert D. Mason, a nephew of Samuel Merry, was admitted to partnership, and 
in 1S70 he assumed control as sole proprietor under the present firm name. 
The business carried on is in bleaching and dyeing of spool threads, knitting 
cotton, cords, braids, tapes, and all kinds of single and two-ply yarns, indigo 
blues and fast blacks for milling purposes ; also, woolen and worsted yarns 
and braids of every description. The works occupied for the business are 
among the largest and most comprehensive of the kind in the state. The main 
building is three stories in height, £00 x 70 teet in dimensions. The principal 
dye-house is 150 x 70 feet, and a second dye-house is 105 x 25 feet. The capac- 
ity of the works is at present five tons per day. The machinery in use is of 
the most modern and improved style that has been invented for this purpose, and 
every facility is afforded for prompt, thorough, and successful work in every de- 
partment. The product has always been maintained at the highest standard of 
quality, and finds a ready sale and a permanent patronage wherever introduced. 
A large and flourishing trade has long been enjoyed by this house in all parts 
of the United States, and it has the entire confidence of its patrons to a marked 
degree. Employment is given to fifty hands. The proprietor, Mr. Mason, is 
a native of Pawtucket, of large and valuable experience in the business. 



Among the leading manufacturers of Pawtucket is Mr. John J. Kenyon, 
manufacturer of stay webbs, bindings, silk finished, plain, and fancy spool 
tapes and braids for manufacturers' use. This business was first inaugurated 
by Messrs. Thomas Kenyon & Son some twenty years ago, the present proprietor 
succeeding to the sole control some three years later. Mr. Kenyon occupies six 
floors, covering in all from eighteen to nineteen thousand feet, all fully equipped 
with every modern improvement and facility in the line of machinery and 
mechanical appliances for the production of first-class goods. The leading 
specialties are the manufacture of silk finished, plain, and fancy spool tapes and 
braids for use of manufacturers, and boot, shoe and corset lacings. In these 
special branches of manufacture Mr. Kenyon has won a wide reputation for the 
excellence of his product and built up a large and steadily increasing trade, 
which extends throughout the New England and Western States and the Can- 
adas. From 105 to 115 hands are daily employed, all skilled and experienced 
in the art of manufacture, and every effort is used to produce a class of goods 
which will recommend their own good qualities wherever introduced. He has 
also a large trade in druggists' and other fancy twines which he manufactures. 
His success in this laudable endeavor is clearly shown by the increasing demand 
made for his goods throughout the country and the name and fame thereby 
established for the house. Mr. Kenyon is also agent for the Pawtucket Tape 
Company, a newly established firm which produces the finest line of super 
tapes now on the market. Mr. Kenyon is a native of England, has resided 



LINCOLN. 



here for upwards of twenty-five years, and was 
time of its fall. 



in the Pemberton Mill at the 



LINCOLN. 

The town of Lincoln extends from Pawtucket along the western bank of 
the Blackstone River to Woonsocket, and contains the villages of Central Falls, 
Valley Falls, Lonsdale, Berkeley, Ashton, Albion, Manville, all situated on the 
Blackstone, and engaged in the cotton manufacture. Portions of some of these 
villages lie across the river in the town of Cumberland. On the Moshassuck 
River, a short distance west of Central Falls, is Saylesville, where are the ex- 
tensive bleacheries of W. F. & F. C. Sayles. A branch railroad leads to the 
place from Woodlawn, the southern suburb of Pawtucket. Lincoln, according 
to the state census of 1SS5, had a population of 17,229, the largest of any town 
in the state. This territory was taken from Smithfield in 1871 and named in 
honor of Abraham Lincoln. Lime Rock, in the centre of the town, almost 
directly west from the village of Berkeley, has three limestone ledges, where 
lime-burning has been continuously carried on since the time of Roger Wil- 
liams. The business is still in a flourishing condition and the supply of mate- 
rial is almost inexhaustible. 

The Providence and Worcester Railroad runs along the Blackstone River 
and has stations at all the villages on its banks. The valley of the Blackstone, 
the chief part of which is in this town, is a beautiful region. From the train, 
as it follows the curves of the river, are seen a succession of pictures of 
wooded slopes, reaches of meadow, and glimpses of the river, with its numerous 
artificial waterfalls, and added to these are the villages with their factories, 
cottages, and churches. 




BLACKSTONE AT LONSDALE. 



The Strangers' Guide-Pawtucket. 



Armory Hall. 79 High. 

Assessor's Office, 35 High. 

Benedict House, corner Main and Broad. 

Broad Street Theatre, 148 Broad. 

City Clerk's Office, 35 High. 

City Hall, 35 High. 

City Records, 35 High. 

City Council Chamber, 35 High. 

Court House, 73 North Main. 

Coggeshall Fountain, Main Street Square. 

Dexter Block. 138 to 142 Main. 

Dexter Building, corner Main and East Avenue. 

Tin- Falls, at the Main Street Bridge. 

High School. High street. 

Infantry Hall. 74 Exchange. 

Laurel Hill, east side river, off Central avenue. 

Laurel Hill Park, junction Fountain and Park. 

Masonic Temple. 98 North Main. 

Music Hall Building, 139 to 147 Main. 

Main Street Square, junction Main and North Main. 

Odd Fellows Building, 215 to 221 Maiu. 

Old Slater Mill, rear 55 North Main. 

Old Town It. ill. -".School. 

l'awtucket Hotel, 23 Broadway. 

Police Station, 73 North Main. 

Post Office, Dexter Building, corner Main aud East 
avenue. 

Probate Court, 35 High. 

Steamboat Wharf, at Division Street Bridge. 

Street Railway Depot, Broad, opposite Exchange. 

Town Hall, Central Falls, Summit. 

Trinity Square, junction Broad and Maiu. 

Weeden Block, corner Main and l'ark Place. 

Wilkinson Park, bounded by Park Place, Church, 
George Cross. 

Washington Hall, School. ■, 



MANUFACTURING ESTABLISH- 
MENTS. 

American Curled Hair Co., 367 High, corner Blackstone, 

Central Falls. 

.Etna Stopper Co., 20 River. 

Bridge Mill. 64 Main. 

Campbell Machine Co.. 106 Broad. 

Central Falls Woolen Mill, 339 Mill, Central Falls. 

Conant Thread Co., Conant and Pine. 

Dempsey Bleachery and Dye Works. 227 North Main. 

Dexter Yarn Co., 80 and 82 East avenue. 

Darius Goff & Sons. 29 River. 

Dunnell Print Works. 116 Prospect. 

Eagle Dye Works, 408 North Main. 

Electric Lighting Co., The Pawtucket, 16 Wilkinson 
Place. 

E. Jenekes Manufacturing Co., 75 and 77 Weeden. 

Fales & Jenks Machine Co., 112 Dexter. 

Greene Dyeing and Finishing Co., 40 and 42 Front. 

Greene & Daniels Manufacturing! 'o., lot Vntral avenue. 

Hair Cloth Co., The Pawtucket, Cross, Central Falls. 

James Davis Belting ( 'o., 22, 24 1 26 Pleasant. 

L. B. Darling Fertilizer Co., 290 Mineral spring avenue. 

Lebanon Mills Co., Lebanon. 

Lorraine Manufacturing Co.. 257 Mineral Spring ave. 

New American Pile ( to., 224 Dexter, Central Falls. 

Pawtucket Gas Works. 

Pawtucket Manufacturing Co., 64 Pine. 

R. Bliss Manufacturing ( 'o., 301 and 309 Main. 

R. I. Card Board Co.. 105 Exchange, corner Front. 

Slater Cotton Co., Church and Main. 

Stafford Manufacturing Co., 379 and 381 Mill, Central 
Falls. 

United States Cotton Co., 11 Foundry, Central Falls. 

Union Wadding Co., 24 Dexter, corner "* 

William H. Haskell Co., 277 Main. 



WARD ROOMS. 

First Ward — Fountain, corner Clay. 

Second Ward — Old Town Hall, 33 School. * 

Third Ward — Police Station Building, 73 North Main 

Fourth Ward —23 Mulberry. 

Fifth Ward— 161 Pawtucket avenue. 



CEMETERIES. 

Mineral Spring, Mineral Spring avenue, corner Conant 

Oak Grove, North Bend. 

Riverside. Pleasant, north of Swan Point. 

St. Francis, Smithneld avenue, near Providence line. 

Walnut Hill, opposite 47 Brook. 

CHURCHES.— Pawtucket. 

Broadway Christian, opposite, 134 Broadway. 

Calvary Baptist, 98 North Main. 

Church of Our Father, High, near Miller. 

Church of the Good Shepherd, Broadway, corner 
Woodbine. 

Church of the Immaculate Conception, (Roman Cath- 
olic) Pine, corner Marion. 

First Baptist, High, corner Summer. 

First Methodist Episcopal, High, near Exchange. 

Free Baptist, 97 Broadway. 

Mission of the Advent, Pawtucket avenue, corner 
Trenton. 

New Jerusalem, Elm. 

Park Place Congregational, Park Place, near Main. 

Pawtucket Congregational, junction Broadway and 
Walcott. 

Pleasant View Baptist, Fountain, near East. 

Sacred Heart of Jesus, (Roman Catholic), Park, corner 
Laurel. 

St. Jean Baptiste, (French R. C), Quiucy avenue. 

St. Joseph's, (Roman Catholic), Walcott, corner South 
Bend. 

St. Paul's (Episcopal), Church street, corner Park Place. 

Thomson M. E., Mineral Spring avenue, 'corner Conant. 

Trinity (Episcopal >, opposite 9 Main. 

Woodlawn Baptist Chapel, Lonsdale avenue, corner 
Capital. 

CHURCHES.— Central Falls. 

Baptist, Broad corner Central. 
Congregational, High, corner Jenks. 
Embury i Methodist Kpis.-opal). Cross, near Hawes. 
St. George's i Episcopal ) ( 'linton, corner Central. 
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart (French Roman Cath- 
olic), Fales, near Broad. 

BRIDGES. 

Division street. 

Maiu street. 

Exchange street. 

Central avenue, from Cross street, Central Falls, to 

Central a\ eiiue. Pawtucket. 

Mill street, from Mill street, Central Falls, to North 
Main street, Pawtucket. 

TELEGRAPH OFFICES. 

Western Union, at P. & W. R. R. Depot. 
Mutual Union, 131 Main. 

Pawtucket District Telegraph and Messenger Co., 9 
and U Easts 



NATIONAL BANKS. 

First, 126 Main. 
Pacific, 11 7 Main. 
Slater, 7 East avenue. 

SAVINGS BANKS. 

Pawtucket Institution for Savings. 117 Main. 
Providence County Savings Bank. 126 Main. 
The Franklin Savings Bank, Main, corner East avenue. 

FIRE STATIONS AND APPARATUS. 

Washington Street, corner Brown — Steamer No. 1, 
Rhode Island Company. 

Main Street, corner Bailey -Steamer No. 2. Rough and 
Ready Company; Slater Hook and Ladder Co., No. 1. 

Water Street, corner Vernon— Steamer No. 3, Monitor 
Company. 

Carnation Street -Steamer No. 4, Atlantic Company. 

Pawtucket Hook and Ladder Company. 



CHAPTER III. 




MARKET SQUARE, WOONSOCKET. 



MTLATIOX AND SURROUNDINGS — MANUFACTURES E ARLY HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT 

INCORPORATION — CORPORATE FACILITIES BRIDGES CHARACTER OF THE POPU- 
LATION—STROLLS AMONG THE FACTORIES AND ALONG THE STREETS. 

Sixteen miles 
from Providence, 
on the Blackstone 
River, and one of 
the chief stations 
on the Providence 
and Worcester 
Railroad, is the 
town of "Wooii- 
sc) eke t, which, 
after Providence 
and Pawtucket, is 
the most import- 
ant manufacturing 
centre in the state. 
It now has a pop- 
ulation of nearly twenty thousand, and is the largest town in the state in point 
of population, — or at least, as that honor has been claimed for Lincoln, it is the 
largest compact community in the state or country under a town government. 
The Blackstone River has here a total fall of about thirty feet over three dams, 
and the tributary streams, the Mill and Peters, which here unite with the 
Blackstone, have falls respectively of sixty and fifty-two feet. These together 
constitute the best water-power in Rhode Island, and it is thoroughly utilized 
for manufacturing purposes. 

The leading industry is the cotton manufacture, which is carried on in all 
its branches, and a larger amount of cloth is probably produced here than in 
any other place in the state. There are a few establishments engaged in the 
manufiuctiu'e of yarns. The woolen manufacture is also carried on extensively. 
There are, besides, a variety of other manufactures, among which are those 
of rubber goods, knit goods, sewing machines, shuttles and bobbins. 

The first settlement made at Woonsocket Falls is supposed to have been 
about the year 1666, when a saw mill was erected by Richard Arnold. With 
the beginning of the eighteenth century, the value of the water-power was seen, 
and various manufactures were started. Not, however, until about 1S10 did 
the place grow to any extent. At that time the cotton manufacture was intro- 
duced, and the first mill of the Social Manufacturing Company was erected. 



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PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 



Since then, on account of the unrivalled water-power, the development of this 
and kindred manufactures has been rapid, until Woonsocket is to-day the chief 
place in some lines of this business in the state. In 183 1, Edward Harris 
began the manufacture of woolen goods here, which has since grown to be the 
second industry in importance in the town. Mr. Harris, later in life, was 
instrumental in procuring a free public library for Woonsocket, and in various 
other ways was a public benefactor. 

The name of Woonsocket was strictly applied to the compact village on the 
east in the neighborhood of the falls, and that side of the river was in Cum- 
berland. In 1S67, the village of Woonsocket, the neighboring village of Social, 
and adjoining territory, were set off from Cumberland and incorporated as the 
town of Woonsocket. In 1S71, the west side, consisting of the villages of 
Globe, Bernon, and Hamlet, and neighboring regions, were setoff from Smith- 
field and added to the town. The Blackstone River flows in a semi-circular 
course through the place, and the surrounding hills inclose it like an amphi- 
theatre. 

Woonsocket has a well-equipped fire department, organized in 1S36, and a 
very efficient police force dating from 1S66. The Woonsocket Patriot, a 
weekly newspaper, was started in 1S33, anc ^ nas been continuously published 
since. A daily paper, the Evening Reporter, has been published since 1873 
and has enjoyed more than ordinary success. Horse-car lines were built in 
1SS7, and the cars began running in August of that year. The town has seven 
churches of different denominations, six national and four savings banks, and a 
public library, and is so rapidly progressing in wealth and population, that it 
is but a matter of a short time before the citizens decide that it shall become 
the city of Woonsocket, the " spindle city" of the valley of the Blackstone. 

Seven highway and two rail- 
road bridges span the Blackstone 
at Woonsocket, and there are be- 
sides several highway bridges 
over the Mill and Peters rivers. 
The oldest bridge is that over the 
river at the falls. The other 
bridges are the Bernon Street, the 
Hamlet Avenue, the Sayles Street, 
the River Street, and the one at 
Hamlet Village, besides the new 
one connecting Fairmount with the 
east side. Held back by the nat- 
ural falls and by the various arti- 
ficial ones, the river forms a num- 
ber of ponds, the largest of which 
is the Bernon between the falls 
and the Bernon dam. On the 
^^ Mill River are two large ponds 
— '■•lik*^z^jy:-!r_ j-^—Se^^. - called respectively the Harris and 

THE HIGH SCHOOL, WOONSOCKET. Social. 




94 



PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 



Illlfllli'l ~^B9BHHH^^i^Hi3Hi^9l^'' There are said to be 

If fm ^ ^Sw ' '% geological indications that 

» "f^^ WLSmm the river in some far re- 

mote age flowed through 
the valley on the north 
side of the town, near the 
railroad. This opinion is 
sustained by the fact that 
in making excavations 
water worn ledges and 
every appearance of the 
ancient bed of a stream 
have been unearthed. 

Woonsocket probably 
affords one of the best 
examples in the country 
of the changes that the 
introduction of machinery 
makes in the character of 
a population. The first 
settlers, and the subse- 
quent ones for genera- 
tions, were of English 
birth and descent. After 
manufacturing began to 
increase rapidly, from the 
early years of the present 
century onward, the gen- 
eral immigration brought 
its share to Woonsocket. 
About the time of the 
Civil War an immigration 
of French Canadians set 
in, and Woonsocket is 
one of the places in which 
they have most thickly 
settled. In 1880, they 
constituted more than one- 
fourth of the population ; 
according to the state cen- 
sus in 1S85, they still held 
this proportion, while 
there were about two hundred less of Canadian birth than in 1S80, but this 
loss must have been by death, and would be much more than counter-balanced 
by the births among this class of the population, which, indeed, is clearly de- 
monstrated by the fact that nearly five thousand of the population of native birth 
had both parents of foreign birth, while about eight hundred were of mixed 




WOONSOCKET. 



95 




THE FALLS AT WOONSOCKET. 



parentage. As nearly one-half of the entire population is of foreign birth, about 
five thousand more of foreign parentage, and more than eight hundred of mixed 
parentage, there is only a small proportion left of the native born of Anglo- 
Saxon descent. The movement of the French Canadians to Woonsocket must 
have been concluded in its large manifestations between 1875 and 1880, as 
between those years they increased -more than a thousand, while in 1885 per- 
sons of Canadian birth were about two hundred less than in 1SS0. There is 
comparatively little, consequently, of the blood of the first settlers in the com- 
munity. 

On account of the great number of French, their language is very gen- 
erally used in the town, and the retail traders find it necessary either to speak it, 
or employ French salesmen. 

In order that an idea may be obtained at first hand of the character of the 
place and the extent of the manufacturing, we invite the reader to take a walk 
about town with us. Of course we start from Providence, and speed up the Black- 
stone Valley on a Providence & Worcester railroad train, reaching Woon- 
socket in about three-quarters of an hour. The train enters Woonsocket on a 
high bridge over the Blackstone and an elevated way over several streets. To 
the left looking from the train we catch a glimpse of the river many feet be- 
low, and of numerous buildings and factories perched on its steep banks, and 
also have a quick view of Main Street as -shown in the engraving on page 
93. The station is a tasteful brick structure built in 1882, and is a story 
above the street on one side. Leaving it from the upper side we soon find our- 



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PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 



selves in Depot Square, formed by the junction of Main with High and Clinton 
streets. To the right, on the corner of High and Main streets, is the Baptist 
Church, and to our left Main and Clinton streets diverge, leading under the rail- 
road tracks. The buildings around the square are three and four-story brick 
and wooden structures, several of which, recently erected, are tasteful and 
modern in design. 

Proceeding up Main Street to the right, there are a number of fine brick 
buildings on both sides. A few steps bring us abreast of the Harris Block, a 
large, three-story, brick building erected in 1856, and which contains the Har- 
ris Institute Free Library, of about 10,000 volumes, the first Free Library 
organized in Rhode Island. The building and a library of 4,000 volumes were a 
gift to the town by Edward Harris, the pioneer woolen manufacturer. In this 
building on the ground floor is the post-office. In the next building on the left, 
the Evening Reporter and the Weekly Patriot are printed. Next beyond, 
still on the left, is the three-story brick factory occupied by the American 
Worsted Company. Then come the extensive factories of the Harris Woolen 
Company, consisting of many buildings of wood, brick, and stone, of various 
ages, the majority of which are on the left-hand side, but one is on the right, 
connected with the others by a bridge built over the street. Just beyond, and 
also on the left-hand side, are the connected brick and stone factories of the 
Lippitt Woolen Company, which extend to the corner of Bernon Street, with 
one factory across that street, below the corner. 

Main Street here leads into Market Square, which is an open space formed 
by the junction of Main, South Main, Bernon, Arnold, and River streets. On 
the east side of this square at the foot of Arnold Street is the Woonsocket Hotel. 
From Depot Square to Market Square, Main Street is about a quarter of a mile 
long. On the opposite side from the factories are retail stores and offices, and 
the street runs along the brow of the high river bank. The rear of the fac- 
tories reach to the edge of Clinton Pond, through which the water passes from 
above the falls, supplying all the factories on this side down to the Clinton 




MONUMENT SQUARE. 



WOONSOCKET. 



97 




THE BLACKSTONE AT 
WOONSOCKET. 

Mills. This pond and its connections make 
an island of the low land between it and the 
river, and on this territory are situated many 
large and small manufacturing establish- 
ments, y 

Leaving Market Square let us proceed down South Main Street. A few 
steps bring us to the extensive works of the Woonsocket Rubber Company, on 
the left, which consist of a number of brick and stone buildings. On the right 
is a large, stone cotton factory, built in 1S46, and now operated by J. P. & J. G. 
Ray, but formerly owned by the Ballou Manufacturing Company, and known 
as the " White Mill." This mill stands on the river bank at the west end of 
the falls, and occupies the site of the saw mill and forge erected by the first set- 
tlers. 

We have now arrived at the bridge. About a hundred feet above it are the 
falls, which are in two portions, being divided by a rocky island in the centre. 
At each side dams have been built, supplementing the natural advantages for 
the benefit of the factories, and the rocky island which divides the falls extends 
for about two hundred feet, the centre of the bridge resting upon it. This 
bridge consists of two stone arches. On the western bank, just below, are the 
Globe Mills, now the property of the Social Manufacturing Company. All this 
portion of Woonsocket across the bridge, southwest of the river, is known as the 
Globe, and is mainly a place of residence. 



9 S PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 

A short distance above the falls is the Sayles Street Bridge, and the houses 
on either side of the river above it are factory tenements. North of Globe Vil- 
lage, on the westerly side, is Fairmount, formerly known as Old Maid's Farm, 
where are the works of the Woonsocket Machine & Press Company, the Per- 
severance Worsted Company, and the Enterprise Mill. A new bridge, finished 
in 1888, connects this section with the east side of the river. 

Returning to Market Square we go down Bernon Street. The wooden 
building at the curve of the street on the right would be taken for a church, 
but it is the Town Hall. Passing a number of small manufacturing establish- 
ments we soon reach the Bernon Bridge, just above which is the Bernon Dam, 
retaining a wide pond of the same name, extending to the falls. Crossing the 
bridge we are now on Bridge Street, in that part of Woonsocket known as 
Bernon. The river bank rises in quite a bulky hill with an easy incline, and is 
covered with pleasant residences and fine mansions. Turning into Front 
Street, the first to the left, we pass several stone factories on the bank of the 
river, all now the property of the Woonsocket Electric Light & Power Com- 
pany, which operates its own plant in one of them, and sub-lets the others to 
various manufacturers. Front Street here leads along the brow of the high 
river bank ; it is wide, and is lined on the side nearest the river with a mag- 
nificent row of elm trees. 

As we emerge on Hamlet Avenue, almost in front of us is St. James 
Episcopal Church, a brown, wooden edifice. Looking up Hamlet Avenue 
from this point, two blocks above, the large brick structure of the French Roman 
Catholic Church looms up conspicuously. Hamlet Avenue is so named from 
the village of Hamlet about half a mile to the southeast at the end of the ave- 
nue, where there is a small cotton mill and a little hamlet of factory tenements. 

Turning into Hamlet Avenue, we pass down the hill, and soon reach the 
Hamlet Avenue Bridge, crossing which we walk along beside the elevated 
tracks of the railroad, and soon emerge on Clinton Street, near Depot Square. 
From Hamlet Avenue and bridge fine views of the river and of other portions 
of Woonsocket are obtained. 

Leaving Depot Square let us pass up Main Street to the north. We imme- 
diately pass under the railroad, and are in among the retail stores again. A 
short distance up the street on the left is the Methodist Episcopal Church, and 
almost opposite just a few steps further up, on the corner of Church Street, is the 
Universalist Church. A few steps further bring us out on Monument Square, 
a large, open space, where Main, North Main, and Social streets, and several 
lanes converge. In the centre of the square is the Soldiers' Monument, standing 
in a circular, railed plat. It consists of a square granite column, surmounted 
by the figure of a soldier, and appropriately inscribed. Fronting on the square 
is the Monument House, a large hotel, consisting of several connected build- 
ings. From Monument •Square, past Depot Square, to Market Square, Main 
Street extends, and contains the principal retail business of the town. This 
portion of the town is the original village of Woonsocket. 

On North Main Street just beyond the Monument House, the new Opera 
House is in process of construction. It will be one of the handsomest buildings 



WOONSOCKET. 99 

of its kind in the state. The front elevation is 58 feet, and the same in width, 
and will be constructed in modern style. The whole building will be 58 x 172 
feet, with a large auditorium containing two galleries, the whole capable of seat- 
ing 1 ,300 persons. The structure is expected to be completed Sept. 1, iSSS. 
Two streets above, corner North Main and Daniels, is the St. Charles Catholic 
Church, a substantial, stone edifice. A few steps further North Main Street 
crosses the New York & New England Railroad, and on either side of the tracks 
are a number of establishments engaged in the manufacture of shuttles, spools, 
bobbins, and other mill supplies. A short distance above, near the railroad, is 
the Harris Woolen Mill at the Privilege. This is a large, brick factory, and is 
one of the largest woolen factories in the country. It is situated on Mill River, 
and the name is derived from the water privileges owned on the river by this 
company. 

Leaving Monument Square by Social Street, on the right are the works of 
the Bailey Wringing Machine Company. About a quarter of a mile beyond we 
reach the Social Mill, a large brick cotton factory, built in 1874 on the site of 
the first cotton mill in Woonsocket. On the left, as we approach the mill, is an 
elegant brick building containing the offices of the Social Manufacturing Com- 
pany, which owns and operates this mill, the Nourse Mill, and the Globe Mills. 
Fronting the Social Mill, across Social Street, are rows of brick tenement 
houses, extending down First, Second, and Third streets to Clinton Street, on 
the opposite side of which, and on the bank of the river, is the Nourse Mill, a 
fine brick structure, erected in 1882. The Social and Nourse mills each have 
two towers, on one of which is a clock, and on the other a wind indicator. 
These mills and their tenements are in excellent condition, and the houses are 
tasteful and beautiful buildings, much in contrast to the ordinary factory dwell- 
ings. Passing down Second we turn into Clinton Street, and return along the 
river, on the way passing the Clinton Mills on the left, and soon again emerge 
on Depot Square. 



The question of the adoption of a city charter will be submitted to the 
electors at the presidential election in November. This matter, as well as the 
setting apart of Northern Rhode Island into a separate county with Woonsocket 
as the seat of justice, is exciting much local interest and discussion, and indica- 
tions are not wanting that both these objects will be realized in the near 
future. There are movements on foot having in view the construction of a 
railroad from Woonsocket to Attleboro, and one from Woonsocket to a 
point in North Smithfield, to connect with the Providence and Springfield 
Railroad. 

In other respects Woonsocket is showing commendable enterprise, a good 
example of which is the experiment with an electric motor on its street cars. 
With its excellent facilities, for a place of its size and the spirit of progress man- 
ifested, Woonsocket is bound to increase in business and wealth and to attract 
an intelligent and industrious population, so that the future will see it a grow- 
ing and prosperous city. 



THE STRANGERS' GUIDE-WOONSOCKET. 



POINTS OF INTEREST. 



Agricultural Fair Grounds. 

American Worsted Co.'s Building, 127 to 143 Main. 
Arnior\ Hall, 62 Arnold. 
Arnold Dr. SctU Medical Corporation. 
Ballon Mill, South Main, near Bridge. 
HiTiimi soiitliernpart.it' Woonsocket. 
Base Ball Grounds, foot Canal street. 
Depot Square, junction High and Main, at railroad 
station. 
District Court, 239 Main. 

Kairniouiit, on west side of river, north of the Globe. 
Foss Memorial Building, 183 and 1*5 Main, 
(ilohe Mills, west of Bernon Pond, Front street, Globe 

Village. 

Globe Village, southwest portion of town. 

(i. A. R Hall, 158 Main. 

Hamlet Village, to the southeast of main town. 

Hamlet Mill, at Hamlet Village. 

Harris Hall. 155 Main. 

Harris Institute Free Library, 155 Main. 

Harris Block, 151 to 161 Main. 

Harris Mo. den Mill, at Privilege. 

I.x.ciim Hall, 155 Main. 

L'Institute Canadien, 16 Main. 

Music Hall, 12 Main. 

Market Square, junction Arnold, Main, South Main 
and liernon. 

Monument Square, junction Main, South Main and 
Social. 

National Globe Bank Building, 2 to 6 Main. 

Jenksville, east of Social. 

Privilege Village, north of Social. 

I'ost Office, 159 Main. 

Patriot Building, 171 to 181 Main. 

Poor Farm, Fairmount, 



Social Mill, S.. 
Social Hall. 7H 
Social Village, 
west from the ra 
St. George's H 
St. .lean Bapth 
Street ltailwaj 
Temple of Hoi 



Tel 



BRIDGES. 

Main Street, South Main, just below falls. 
Bernon, from Bernon to Bridge street. 
Hamlet. Avenue, west of railroad bridge. 
Sayles Street, north of the falls. 
River Street, from Fairinount. east of railroad. 
Fairmount bridge (new), between Sayles and River 
street bridges. 
Cumberland Road bridge, at Hamlet Village. 

CHURCHES. 



nth Main, corner Pleasant. 
Lvociuu Hall. 155 Main, 
.in. corner High. 

irrineton avenue, corner Park ave. 
id. Main, opposite Church. 
T; avenue, j unction Greene. 

■, North Main, corner Daniels. 
' -t avenue. 



street, Social village, 
cial. 

rth of the river and a short distance 
oad station. 
1S5 Main. 
Hall, 239 Main, 
ation. 244 Main. 
Hall. 191 Main. 

(Western Union ).. Providence & Wor- 
cester Railroad depot. 

Telephone Office. 239 Main, room 12. 
Woonsocket Agricultural Society. 

Woonsocket Hospital, Cass road, near Cumberland st. 
Woonsocket Business Men's Association, 177 Main. 
Woonsocket Opera House, 5 to 11 North Main. 
Young Men's Christian Association, Unity Building, 
.Main, corner Clinton. 



M ANUFACTURI N G E STABLISH- 

MENTS. 



American Worsted Co., 123 Main. 

Bailey Wringing Machine Co.. 35 Social. 

Clinton Manufacturing Co., 45 Clinton. 

Dr. Seth Arnold Medical Corporation, 72 Park avenue. 

Eagle Mills, 7 Clinton. 

Glenark Knitting Co.. 67 South Main. 

Globe Mills Globe Village. 

Harris Woolen Co., mills at 73 Main, and at the Privi- 

ilege. 

Leicester Knitting Mills, 5li Bernon. 
Lippit Woolen ( '.o., 9 Bernon. 
Noitrse Mill, Clinton street. 
Perseverance Worsted Co., 251 River. 
Relief Washing Machine Co., 65 Arnold. 
Social Mill ; Social street. Social Village. 
Valley Falls Co., 31 Front. 

Woonsocket Electric Machine and Power Co., 33 and 35 
Front. 

Woonsocket Gas Co., 166 Main. 

Woonsocket Machine and Press Co.. 101 Second ave. 
Woonsocket Rubber Co., 52 South Main. 
Woonsocket Spool and Bobbin Co., 7(1 and 72 Pond. 
Woonsocket Worsted Mill, 264 River. 



St. Charles C; 



Universalis!. 

PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 

High, Boyden. 
Consolidated, Boyden. 
Grove Street. 
Providence Street, 
North Main Street. 
Constitution Hill. Hope. 

.lellokeSYlllcmeW). 

Jenckesville (old), Social Street. 

Arnold Street. 

Summer Street. 

High street. 

Fairmount, Second avenue. 

Park Avenue. 

Clinton, near Clinton Mills. 

Hamlet, at Hamlet Village. 

Union District. 



CATHOLIC— Parochial Schools. 

French Parish, Carrington avenue, corner Park ave. 
Les Dames de Jesus Marie, convent and academy, 43 
Hamlet avenue. 
St. Bernard, convent and academy. 33 Earle. 
St. Charles, Earle, corner of Daniels. 
St. Michaels, 59 River. 

NEWSPAPERS. 

Evening Reporter (Daily). 143 Main. 
Woonsocket Patriot (Weekly). 143 Main. 
Newton's Textile Gazette, 226 Main. 

FIRE STATIONS AND APPARATUS. 

Bernon Street, Steamer No. 1, and horse hose reel, 15 

At Social, in Mill yard, Steamer No. 2, and horse hose 
reel, 15 men. , , 

Near Monument Square, Steamer No. 3, and hose 
wagon, with 600 feet hose, 10 men. 

STAGES. 

Blackstoue and Woonsocket Omnibus, 20 Main, two 

trips daily. 

Slaterville and Woonsocket Stage, two trips daily, and 
extra one Saturday night. 

NATIONAL BANKS. 

First, 166 Main. 
Citizens, '6 Main. 
Globe, 6 Main. 
Union, 146 Main. 
Producers', 185 Main. 
Woonsocket, 166 Main. 

SAVINGS BANKS. 

Mechanics. 6 Main. 

Peo) de's, 166 Main. 

Producer's, 185 Main. 

Woonsocket Institution for Savings, 166 Main. 



Part Second. 



CHAPTER I. 



NARRAGANSETT BAY: ITS EXTENT AND CHARACTER THE FISHERIES OYSTER LEASES 

AND CULTURE — OTHER SHELL FISH —IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CHANNEL EAST PROV- 
IDENCE — THE SHORE PLACES: FIELD'S POINT SOIJAXTUM VUE DE L'EAU CLUB 

SILVER SPRING POMHAM CLUB HOUSE RIVERSIDE — BULLOCK'S POINT CRES- 
CENT PARK PAWTUXET — RHODE ISLAND YACHT CLUB — BARRINGTON AND NAY- 

ATT POINT WARREN BRISTOL THE WARWICK SHORE ROCKY POINT WAR- 
WICK NECK OAKLAND BEACH THE BUTTONWOODS EAST GREENWICH WICKFORD 

THE ISLANDS OF THE BAY SEACONNET POINT. FALL RIVER. 

Extending northward about thirty miles into 
the State of Rhode Island is Narragansett Bay, 
on the shores of which are the chief towns and 
cities of the state, and the history of Rhode Island 
may be said to have transpired on its waters and 
along its shores. The bay occupies nearly two 
hundred and fifty square miles — about one-fifth 
of the entire area of the state — and its shores are 
much indented with inlets and coves, while it is 
thickly studded with large and small islands. 
The largest is Rhode Island, at the mouth of the 
bay, on the southern extremity of which the city 
of Newport is situated. The state takes its name 
from this island. Providence and Pawtucket are 
at the head of the bay to the north, and Fall 
River to the northeast, while along the shores and on inlets and coves are many 
smaller towns, villages, and summer resorts ; and on eligible situations, both 
on islands and mainland, are many hotels, places of entertainment or recrea- 
tion, and beautiful summer homes. 

The fisheries of Narragansett Bay is one of the important interests of the 
state. In 1SS5 there was $688,838 invested in the business. 1.373 persons 
employed, and to carry on the work 14 steamers, 66 schooners, 312 sloops and 
sail-boats, and 90S row-boats were used. Food fish caught amounted to 6,181,- 
10S pounds, valued at $228,630; 654S5 bushels of clams were dug, valued at 
$6o,So7 ; I 7>994 bushels of quahaugs, valued at $16,461 ; 34,008 bushels of 
scallops were caught, valued at $18,342 ; 320,059 bushels of oysters were taken 




CAPTAIN WILLIAM WINSLOW 
The Pioneer Proprietor of Rocky Point. 



PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 




CAPTAIN GEORGE H. KELLEY, 
Of the Continental Line. 



up, valued at $422,863 ; 449,815 pounds of 
lobster were caught, valued at $23,357 — 
thus making the total value of all shell-fish 
$542,296. 

The oyster is a natural habitat of the bay, 
and those native in the upper waters have 
always been in great demand on account of 
their excellent quality. A large area of the 
shoals of the upper portion of the bay is 
devoted to the cultivation of the oyster. 
These beds belong to the state, and are in 
charge of a commissioner and two assistants, 
under whose direction they are leased to 
persons desiring to use them, and all details 
of the business and of the leases ai'e striclty 
regulated by law. A uniform rent of $10 
per acre is charged, and in the year 1887 about eight hundred acres were let at 
this figure ; about one hundred acres are leased in water over twelve feet deep 
at high tide, at a dollar an acre, for the purpose of planting seed oysters. The 
state began leasing these beds about 1S50 and the first few years the income was 
very small, being inside of $100 annually, but it steadily increased until in 1885 
it amounted to $11,920, leaving a net income to the state of something over 
$10,000. Since that time a number of oyster beds have been abandoned, mainly 
because of the failure of the Virginia oysters which were transplanted here in 
the spring and taken up in the fall, and were usually placed in shoal water inside 
the six-foot line, where it is not safe to place the native oysters on account of the 
danger from ice in winter. A number of localities are reserved by law as free 
oyster beds, and in certain sections beds in-shore cannot be leased because of the 
interference with the clam and quahaug digging. Under the old charter and 
laws of the state the inhabitants of the state had an inalienable right to the fisher- 
ies on the bay and shores, and this made all the land between high and low 
water mark common property. The amend- 
ments made to the fishery laws from time to 
time have been mostly directed to the preser- 
vation and definition of these rights. The 
constitution of 1S42 specially declared in the 
seventeenth section of the first article that the 
people were to continue in the enjoyment of 
the rights of fishery and of the shore they had 
enjoyed under the charter. 

Clam and quahaug digging, because of the 
shores being thus free to the people, are car- 
ried on by a great many persons as a busi- 
ness on their own account. The shores of 

East Providence and Warwick have the largest colonels s atwell 

amount of territory available for these pur- f Field's Point 




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poses. Scallop fishing is also carried on by the same class of persons exten- 
sively, but as boats are necessary to take these shell-fish, more capital is re- 
quired, and the business is being developed into one in which men are employed 
instead of working for themselves. Greenwich Bay is the principal fishing 
ground for scallops, and by law no part of this bay can be leased for oyster 
beds. 

A great deal of work has been done by the United States Government in 
deepening the channel in the upper part of the. bay. The work was begun in 
1851 and has been carried on at intervals since then, as appropriations have been 
made for the purpose. As a result, the ship-channel from Fox Point to Conim- 
icut Point has been increased in depth from four and one-half to twenty-five 
feet at mean low water. According to the plans of the United States engineers 
it is intended ultimately to form a channel 300 feet in width, 25 feet deep in 
centre, and of less depth toward the sides, from Fox Point to the deep waters 
of the bay. As a consequence of work already done, vessels of the deepest 
draught can now come up the bay to Providence, and everything is therefore 
ready in that respect for the long-talked-of foreign commerce. 

In the summer, the shores of Narragansett Bay have great attractions, not 
only for the residents of the city and state, but for visitors from other states* 
The great moving cause impelling people to 
come here is the famous Rhode Island clam- 
bake, but the character of the bay itself — 
its smooth waters, beautiful inlets, coves, and 
shores, with, in many cases, splendid oppor- 
tunities for sailing and fishing, also draw many 
visitors, and all these characteristics taken 
together make the resorts on the bay popular, 
and have tended to build up many places 
devoted to the entertainment of the public. 
During the season, which begins late in June 
and continues until the middle of September, 
steamers ply from Providence and Pawtucket 
to all the shore places. 





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CAPTAIN A. M. CLARK, 
Of the Continental Line. 




PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 

Across the See- 

konk River from 

Providence is the 

town of East Prov- 
idence, which ex- 
tends along the east 

shore of the bay to 

Bullock's Point, six 

miles from the city. 

The compact place 

formerly called 

Watchemoket, but 

now generally 

known as East 
Providence, is an important residence suburb of the city, and has largely 
increased in size and population since the completion of the new Washing- 
ton Bridge and the establishing of the horse-car line in 1S83. It is the 
largest place in the town and is connected with the city by the Washington and 
Red bridges. The majority of the popular resorts on the bay are on the shores 
of East Providence. From Providence Harbor the whole shore is a succession 
of high bluffs, alternating with coves, headlands, and rocky islands, with sandy 
beaches at the foot of the bluffs, and throughout the whole extent is occupied by 
summer cottages, boarding-houses, and hotels, perched in advantageous situations 
all along shore. The Providence, Warren and Bristol Railroad skirts the shore 
until some distance beyond Silver Spring, and has a station there and at River- 
side. The resorts on this shore are Squantum (club), Vue de L'Eau (club), 
Golden Spring, Silver Spring, Pomham (club), Riverside, Camp White, Bul- 
lock's Point, and Crescent Park. 



CAPTAIN G. W. CONLEY, 
Of Steamer G. W. Danielson. 



FIELD'S POINT. 

The first shore resort reached from Providence is Field's Point, two miles 
below the city, situated on a sandy tongue of land extending into the water from 




SQUANTUM, EAST PROVIDENCE. 



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the high bluffs on the western shore, 
which forms a natural breakwater for 
Providence Harbor. The "Point" is 
one of the oldest resorts on the bay, and 
from its nearness to the city has always 
been a very popular place for shore 
dinners. On its further side, the bay 
widens out, and is here faced like the 
harbor by high bluffs, surmounted by a 
number of summer cottages command- 
ing excellent views of the bay and the 
city. The estate of about thirty-eight 
acres, at the extremity of the Point, belongs 
to the city. 

Colonel S. S. Atwell, of Provi- 
dence, secured the lease of Field's Point 
in 18S7 from the city council, for five 
years, and opened it to the public for his 

second season early in June. He has repainted the buildings, renovated the 
premises and grounds generally, erected a new telephone line to the city, and 
made the Point more attractive and popular with shore parties, excursionists, 
visitors, and patrons, than ever before. 

" Starve Goat Island " with its low cottage, is located just south of Field's 
Point and around this island is Great Bed, the first and now one of the largest of 
the oyster " farms." Fuller's Rock Light-house is directly opposite the Point 
near the eastern shore. 

SQUANTUM. 

A short distance below Field's Point, on the opposite side of the river, is a 
rocky promontory surmounted by a number of red-roofed and picturesque build- 
ings, and with a small wharf for a landing. This is the property of the Squan- 

tum Club, an association of Rhode Island 
gentlemen who monopolize the seclusion 
this spot affords for the especial purpose 
of enjoying a regular weekly clam-bake 
every Wednesday afternoon during the shore 
season. Stockholders and invited guests from 
abroad are alone entitled to the privileges and 
immunities of the club. The ladies of the 
proprietors and their guests are invited to 
monthly entertainments. The " Squantum " 
is the first shore club originated in this sec- 
tion, if not the first in the country, and has 
always maintained a select membership and 
a very high reputation. These grounds are 
----- accessible by steamer, railroad, and by 

capt. jesse mott, carriage. 

the Providence & Stonington Una. 




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CAPT. EZRA GIFFORD, 
Of the Shore Transportation Company. 



VUE DE L'EAU. 

Just beyond Squantum and situated on 
a slight elevation on the eastern shore, its 
pleasant undulating grounds facing the west, 
well-covered and ornamented by shade trees 
of native growth, is the Vue De L'Eau Club 
House. Formerly this was a popular public 
shore resort known as Ocean Cottage, but 
of late years it has been occupied by this 
club, a company of gentlemen similar to 
the Squantum, and like them it has a weekly 
clam-bake prepared here for members and 
invited guests. It can be reached from the 
Silver Spring station on the Providence, 
Warren & Bristol Railroad, by the boats to 
Silver Spring landing, or by carriage. 



SILVER SPRING. 

By this euphonious title was the next place on the eastern shore christened 
by Hiram Maxfield when he first set up there as a shore caterer, in 1S69, and 
gave it a popularity as a first-class shore resort which it has ever since sus- 
tained, and under the excellent management of the present proprietor, H. P. 
Bliss, has been greatly improved in many respects. The spacious and con- 
spicuous dining-hall standing on the bold rocky shore with the neat white adjoin- 
ing buildings indicate the character and cleanliness of this establishment inside 
and out. The table service here is all performed by colored waiters, and the 
utmost care and attention is bestowed upon patrons, and the service approaches, 
very near the modern hotel style. Back from the shore the diversified scenery 
presents hill and vale, rocks and trees in great variety, while artistic cottages 
with their pleasant piazzas are perched on the cliffs, the whole presenting 
many attractions few shore places can equal. There is a station of the Provi- 
dence, Warren and Bristol Railroad here, just at the entrance to the grounds,, 
and the steamers stop here. 

MAXFIELD'S. 

Just north of Silver Spring is a range of buildings of a golden canary 
color, where for several seasons past clam dinners have been served, and the 
place was known as Golden Spring, but this year has been rechristened Max- 
field's. The present season the buildings have been renovated and are under the 
charge of Charles T. Maxfield, son of Hiram Maxfield. A landing at which the 
boats ot the Continental Steamboat Company stops projects from the building. 

POMHAM CLUB HOUSE. 

Off the east shore, a short distance below Silver Spring, are Pomham 
Rocks, named after an Indian chief who was killed in 1676. Opposite them 
rises a high bluff, the highest point of land on the east side of the river, with 



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the exception of Fox Hill overlooking Prov- 
idence Harbor. On this eminence now 
stands the picturesque red-roofed Queen 
Anne building of the Porn ham Club, which 
was built in 1SS7, and opened June 7th of 
that year. The building is no feet long 
by 47 wide, two stories in height, its found- 
ations are 75 feet above high water-mark, its 
upper balcony 90 feet, and the seats on the 








H. P. BLISS, OF SILVER SPRING 
Proprietor of Silver Spring. 

tower 1 15 feet. On this account splen- 
did views of the bay and shores can be 
obtained from the house, especially 
from the tower. The club is similar 
to the two others further up the shore, 
being an exclusive organization of men 
of wealth for social purposes. Its mem- 
bership is limited to 150. The Provi- 
dence, Warren and Bristol Railroad 
skirts the foot of the bluff, and trains 
stop at a small station here when they 
have on board any passengers for the 
club house. Directly in front are the 
two principal Pomham rocks, and on 
one of them is a government light- 
house, known as Pomham Rock Light. 

RIVERSIDE. 

Just beyond the Pomham Club 
House the bluff along shore is crowned 
with summer 
residences ex- 
tending from 
the steamboat 
landing f o r 
half a mile or 
more, forming 
the largest resi- 
dence summer 
resort nearProv- 
idence. The 



10S PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 

River View Park House, the large hotel on the bluff at the head of the wharf, 
furnishes shore dinners in excellent style. Riverside was formerly known as 
Cedar Grove, and was fitted up for a public resort about 1867, when a long wharf 
was built out to deep water as a landing for excursion steamers, and a large hotel 
was built which was afterwards removed bodily to Nantucket. Tents and 
cheap, tasteful cottages then lined the shores, but of late years these and 
other transient features have been replaced with a better class of houses, and 
the place put on a more permanent aspect, until now between two and three 
hundred families make this their permanent residence, and Riverside is a rap- 
idly growing and thriving community with churches, schools, libraries,' and 
other permanent facilities. The Warren and Bristol division of the Old Colonv 
Railroad has a station here. 

BULLOCK'S POINT. 

Next below Riverside, and about two miles further south, on the eastern 
shore, is Bullock's Point, a fine, airy place, beautifully located on an. elevated 
neck of land surrounded by water on all sides except the north. This place has 
acquired and sustained for years a great reputation for its clam-bakes and shore 
dinners, and is well provided with other attractions in the shape of a fine dance 
hall, swings, and an elevated railroad. A large and beautiful pine grove on the 
premises affords a fine camping place for fishing and shore parties to pitch their 
tents, and its beach is one of the best on the bay for bathing facilities. On the 
bluffs along the shore between Bullock's Point and Riverside, singly and in 
groups, are a large number of summer cottages and boarding-houses, including 
"Camp White," "Cherry Grove," "Sabin's Point," and others. The What 
Cheer House, a good hotel, conducted by James E. Woodward, is situated near 
the head of the wharf at the Point. 

CRESCENT PARK. 

This is the newest of the many shore places on the bay, and was opened in 
1 886 by George Boyden. It is very pleasantly located at the head of Cres- 
cent Cove, just east of and about three minutes' walk from the steamboat land- 
ing at Bullock's Point, over a firm and easy plank walk. The park embraces 
nearly one hundred acres of land, with ample room and every facility for suitably 
accommodating encampments, excursions, base-ball, foot-ball, cricket, or other 
clubs and private parties. On the grounds is a large dance hall, 30 x 100 feet, 
the largest on the eastern shore, entirely surrounded by a broad and airy piazza, 
with a large room on the second floor for the special use of musicians with ex. 
cursions or with other companies. 

PAWTUXET. 

On the west side of the bay opposite Riverside and Bullock's Point is the 
ancient, quaint, bay-side village of Pawtuxet, located at the mouth of the Paw- 
tuxet River, about four miles south of the city. It is one of the oldest places 
in the state, having been settled four years after Providence, and but few 



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CAPTAIN J. P. TAYLOR, 

Superintendent Continental Line 



changes or improvements were made there 
for years, until recently it has become a 
favorite place for summer residence. 

The mouth of ■ the river forms a small 
harbor, separated from the bay by the pe- 
ninsula of Pawtuxet Neck, which shore- 
ward is now nearly all occupied by elegant 
summer residences erected within the last 
few years. Seen from the bay or opposite 
shores, Pawtuxet presents one of the most 
attractive and picturesque features of the 
entire western shore. The celebrated 
Gaspee Point lies a short distance south, 
where, on the night of June 10, 1772, the 
British armed schooner cruiser Gaspee 
was captured and burned by a party of dis- 
guised Providence and Bristol men, who rowed to her in boats with muffled oars 
as she lay hard aground on the point. Further down the shore is Turtle Cove 
and "Mark Rock," formerly a very noted place for shore and picnic parties. 

Rhode Island Yacht Club. — At the elbow or northern end of Pawtuxet 
Neck, apparently seated right in the water, is the picturesque house of the 
Rhode Island Yacht Club. The house is built on Big Rock, a large, irregular 
mass a short distance from the shore, and is supported thereon by solid iron 
pillars. It is a two-story structure with deep balconies on both stories ; and 
a graceful tower on the bay-side adds greatly to its picturesque appearance. It 
is reached from the shore by a foot bridge. 

The club was organized in the winter of 1SS6, and in February, 1887, the first 
election of officers was held. The Pawtuxet regattas in 1SS5 and 1SS6 gave the 
impetus which resulted in the club's formation, as the fact was thereby shown 
that sufficient interest existed to sustain such an organization. The charter ot 
the old Providence Yacht Club was obtained, amended, and used to organize 

under, in order to save time. The new club 
is not, however, a revival of the old one, but 
a new organization throughout, with new 
constitution and by-laws. The present mem- 
bership is over 500 and the number of boats 
owned by club members is about So. 

BARRINGTON -NAYATT. 

South from the territory of East Provi- 
dence, its coast line on the bay extending 
from Bullock's Point to Rumstick Point, at 
the mouth of the Warren River, is the town 
captain s b. Rhodes, of Banin g ton > an extensive territory inhab- 

Continentai steamboat Company. ited almost wholly by summer residents and 




no PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 

fishermen. The Barrington River, a narrow tidal basin, unites with the Warren 
River at the town of that name, and makes up into the country in a northwesterly 
direction, setting oft" the larger portion of Barrington into a peninsula from two 
to three miles wide and about five miles long. The whole territory is level, in 
its limits there are no large villages, and the communities that do exist are 
composed of residences widely separated from each other. This circumstance, 
together with the beauty of the country and the general well-to-do looks of the 
dwellings, makes a succession of pictures of rural contentment unequaled any- 
where in the state. On the bay-side are many summer residences, the majority 
of which are in two groups. The Warren & Bristol Division of the Old 
Colony Railroad runs through the centre of the town, and affords reasonably 
good access to the chief localities from the three stations of Drownville, Nayatt, 
and Barrington. 

Drownville, just across Bullock's Cove from Bullock's Point, is a com- 
munity composed of some dozens of residences scattered over a wide area, and 
is inhabited by many summer residents, although a number of Providence busi- 
ness men live here all the year round. On the shore are a number of oyster 
depots, as some of the chief oyster banks in the state are located oft' these shores. 
Beyond Drownville, southward, is the summer seaside village of Anawom- 
scutt, one of the prettiest little settlements of the kind to be met with any- 
where. It consists of about a dozen houses, all standing in a row on a bank 
facing the bay, not more than twenty yards distant from high-water mark. 
Between the houses and the shore is a grassy lawn, and an asphalt walk 
runs the whole length of the settlement in the middle of this lawn, while other 
paths lead from the houses down to the shore. A sea wall six or eight feet in 
height protects this lawn and bank from the tide, and on the wall and beneath it 
are several isolated and artistic bathing-houses. No fences separate these dwell- 
ings from each other, so that they form a compact little community. The beach 
is a smooth stretch of level sand, but on account of the gentle incline there is 
not sufficient water for comfortable bathing unless when the tide is full. 

The most important place in Barrington is Nayatt Point, where there are 
many fine villas, the residences of wealthy people. The Point is a headland 
forty or fifty feet above the sea, and by comparison with the surrounding low 
country is quite elevated, for this reason being also called Nayatt Hill. It faces 
on the bay west and south, and is the most beautiful spot in the town. The 
houses are perched on the bold shores, on the most picturesque sites ; they are 
located on fine avenues, surrounded by well-kept lawns, and embowered in 
trees. These fine residences are quite close together and form a pleasant little 
village (if it is correct to call this elegant community by such a common name), 
and more than any other place in the state, it seems like a detached part of 
Newport. Nayatt forms a complete antithesis to another seaside village ten 
miles distant across the bay. " Scallop Town," East Greenwich's suburb, sits 
like a slattern on and in the water, consists of dingy, tumble-down hovels, and 
is the abode of poor fishermen : Nayatt perched above the water, overlooks the 
bay like a queen, her houses are palaces, and her inhabitants are the wealthy, 
the educated, and the powerful. 



ALONG SHORE. 



Conimicut Point is opposite Nayatt, and 
directly south the bay expands to more than 
twice its previous width, measuring from Pop- 
pasquash Neck on the east opposite Bristol to 
the extremity of Greenwich Bay about ten 
miles. 

Barrington Centre, a scattered looking vil- 
lage, a little over a mile from Warren, is the 
chief place in the town, and during the win- 
ter and spring of iSSS, a fine new town build- 
ing was erected here about a quarter of a mile 
from the railroad station. It is a modern look- 
ing structure, in the prevailing styles of archi- 
tecture, with turrets and gables, and from the 
train presents a very fine appearance. It has 
ample accommodations for town offices, and has besides a hall for meetings 
or entertainments, and accommodations for a school. 




GEORGE BOYDEN, 
Dprietor of Crescent Park. 



WARREN. 

Warren is a pleasant place of about four thousand inhabitants, situated on 
the Warren River, an inlet on the east side of Narragansett Bay. It is laid 
out along the east side of this inlet, which here forms a good harbor. Above the 
town, the river divides into two portions which run up into the country several 
miles, the most northerly being known as the Barrington and the other as the 
Palmer River, and into these tidal basins small fresh-water streams empty. The 
main streets of Warren run north and south parallel with the river, and are in- 
tersected by cross streets running up from the water's edge. The streets are 
lined with trees, mostly elms, which afford a pleasant shade and add much to 
the appearance of the place in summer. There are five churches in the town, 
the largest being the Baptist, a substantial stone edifice with a square tower and 
clock, which is conspicuous from the train as it approaches from Providence. 
On Main Street are several fine buildings, the best and latest of which is the 




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ii2 PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 

new stone structure of the George Hail Free Library. The chief industry is 
the cotton manufacture, carried on by the Cutler Manufacturing Company and 
the Warren Manufacturing Company, each of which has large factories. The 
operatives are mostly French-Canadians, and they constitute about twenty per 
cent, of the population. 

Many people of small means live retired in Warren, and during the warm 
weather it is patronized, to some extent, as a summer resort on account of its 
fine harbor and the opportunities for sailing and fishing. Palmer River is the 
only water-way in the state that runs shad. Extensive reaches of the river above 
Warren are staked with traps for these fish, and in a deep pool at Shad Factory 
is their favorite spawning place. Along the shore of the territory of Warren 
are some of the best beds of oysters in the state. In 1885, the value of the oys- 
ters obtained off the Warren shores, mostly in the Kickemuit River, was more 
than half of the entire product of the state. Two branches of the now con- 
solidated Old Colony Railroad system make a junction at Warren, constituting 
it thereby the most important way-station between Providence, Fall River, and 
Newport. 

The earliest settlement of the English on the shores of Narragansett Bay is 
said to have been at Warren, where a trading-post was established many years 
before Roger Williams settled Providence. The town met with great losses in 
her commercial and ship-building interests during the Revolutionary War, and 
afterward became a prominent whaling port. The name " Warren " was given 
to the town early in its history, in honor of Admiral Sir Peter Warren, who 
had commanded an English fleet in some important engagements. 

BRISTOL. 

Four miles south from Warren is the town of Bristol, one of the most beau- 
tiful places, not only in Rhode Island, but in New England. It lies on the east 
shore of Narragansett Bay, fronting a capacious harbor, which is inclosed from 
the bay by an arm-like peninsula known by the Indian name, Poppasquash 
Neck. The town is situated on the east side of its fine harbor and extends along 
the water about a mile, and back up a gentle slope half a mile. The streets are 
wide, crossing each other at right angles, and are nearly all lined with rows of 
large elm trees, forming in the summer magnificent arcades with leafy arches 
and majestic colonnades. Many people of small means, or of inherited wealth 
make Bristol their home, and it is resorted to propably more than any other 
place in the upper bay as a summer residence. Many fine public buildings and 
several handsome churches adorn its streets, while mansion houses and modest 
private residences constitute the bulk of its dwellings. The factory tenement 
hardly exists in the place, and the proportion of persons of native birth has 
always been much larger here than in most of the other manufacturing towns in 
the state. Bristol is the terminus of the Warren and Bristol Division of the 
Old Colony Railroad and is connected thereby with both Providence and Bos- 
ton, while direct communication is had by steamer with Providence and Fall 
River. 



ii 4 PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 

In the early years of this century, Bristol had considerable foreign com- 
merce which continued until about 1S40. Manufacturing was first introduced 
about 1825. 

Bristol's fine harbor made it a convenient place for factories, and several 
large establishments were founded here. For several years a line of large 
steamers running to New York City made Bristol their eastern port of depart- 
ure, but in 1869 they were sold to the Old Colony Railroad Company and trans- 
ferred to Fall River. 

Thames Street, running along the water front, is lined on the side nearest 
the harbor with the majority of the industrial establishments in the town. The 
large brick factory near the railroad station is the Phenix Sugar Refinery, which 
has been idle for the last twelve or fifteen years. Next comes the Namquit 
Mill, engaged in cotton manufacture, and at the end of the street are the brick 
cotton mills of the Reynolds Manufacturing Company, which have been idle for 
a number of years. Besides these are many smaller establishments. Hope 
Street, next above Thames, is the chief thoroughfare of the town, and is a magnifi- 
cent broad avenue lined with overarching elms. The buildings of the Roger's 
Free Library, the Burnside Memorial, St. Michael's Church and Chapel, are all 
on this street, and are excellent specimens of architecture. Next above Hope 
is High Street, so called from the fact that it runs along the summit of the slight 
acclivity on which the town is built. On this street, corner of Bradford, is the 
First Congregational Church, a handsome granite edifice with a square tower, 
built in 1S57, anc i * s tne most expensive and finest finished church in the town. 
Adjoining is a chapel built in 1S70. The Congregational Society is the oldest 
church organization in the town, dating back to 16S7, and the present edifice is 
the third house of worship. The second building, erected in 17S4, was given 
to the town in 18^6, when it was moved to Bradford Street, and has since been 
used as a town hall. 

About the central part of High Street, in a row on the east side, extending 
from State to Church streets, stands a brick school-house, the First Baptist Church, 
the Court House, and the Byfield School, and in the rear of them is an exten- 
sive common used as a park. On State Street, between Hope and High streets, 
is the Methodist Episcopal Church, a large, white, wooden building, with a 
tall, graceful spire. 

Beyond High is Wood Street, on the east side of which are the works 
of the rubber company, the principal industrial establishment in the town. The 
buildings of this concern cover six acres, and when running to their full 
capacity 1,200 hands are employed. Near the extremity of Hope Street and 
abutting on the water are the works of the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, 
builders of steam and sail yachts and patent coil boilers, which are under the 
management of the celebrated blind designer, John B. Herreshoff. 

In the estimation of the inhabitants of Bristol, the finest view to be obtained 
on Narragansett Bay is from Ferry Hill, one and a half miles south of Bristol, 
and opposite the Bristol Ferry Landing on the Rhode Island shore. The hill is a 
rocky bluff, or a group of them. On a clear morning, the adjoining islands, the 
shores of Rhode Island and Tiverton, Fall River to the northeast, the whole 



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expanse of Mount Hope Bay, and glimpses of the islands and shores to the west 
and north, are within a pleasant range of vision, so that while the outlook is not 
so extensive as from Mount Hope, it is much more satisfactory. When the 
morning sun is striking on its roofs, the city of Providence can also be seen on 
a clear day to rare advantage. The view of Bristol from here is the finest to 
be had from any point, and the wKole extent of the bay down to Newport lies 
directly south, so that the finest long-distance view of Fort Adams to be had is 
obtained from this position. 

Two miles eastward from Bristol, Mount Hope rises nearly three hundred 
feet above the level of the sea, the highest elevation in the state, and a place 
of historic interest in connection with King Philip, the famous Indian sachem, 
who was slain near here. A curious, natural-shaped rude seat in the rock on 
its eastern slope has long- been known as w ' King Philip's Throne." The Rhode 
Island Historical Society has erected two memorials here to indicate and mark 
points of historical interest. 

Poppasquash Neck is a long peninsula between Bristol Harbor on the 
west and the bay, and is a quiet farming and residence neighborhood. 

One of the most charmingly situated summer hotels on Narragansett Bay 
is the Bristol Ferry House. It is located on a gentle rise of land directly back 
of and facing the steamer landing. The house is three stories in height, with a 
basement, has three verandas, contains thirty-five sleeping rooms, besides spa- 
cious parlors and a large dining-room, which can also be used for dancing. 
The house looks westward, is surrounded by large trees, mostly poplars, and is 
always fanned by breezes from every quarter of the bay on even the hottest 
days. From it are obtained views of Mount Hope Bay, part of Narragansett 
Bay, Hog and Prudence islands, Mount Hope, and Fall River. There are fre- 
quent trains from Newport and Fall River, and the steamers plying between 
Fall River and Providence stop at the landing on each trip. Fall River is 
seven miles distant, Boston fifty-eight miles, and the landing and station are only 
one minute's walk from the house. The house is open from June to October, 
and being under the direct care of the proprietor, Mr. Alfred Sisson, has all 
the advantages of a hotel with the comforts of a home. 

THE WARWICK SHORE. 

While the east side of the bay for a dozen miles below Providence is lined 
with summer residences and is a great rendezvous of the excursionists, the west 
side opposite has been comparatively neglected. This region, however, is 
not without its charms ; in fact, in the opinion of residents and of disinterested 
visitors it has advantages in many respects superior to the east shore. The 
main reason for this neglect has been, not any lack of natural attractiveness, but 
the difficulty of access, as the east side having greater depth of water near shore, 
steamers have been enabled to make landings there without much inconvenience. 
Although the east side has thus been the most popular, it is a curious fact that 
one of the earliest and for a time a very noted popular resort was on the west 
side on the south shore of Turtle Cove, and people went there in crowds, both 



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by sail-boat and carriage. It was known in its hey-day as Mark Rock from 
some rocks on the shore in the vicinity. 

This section and the remainder of the coast line of the town of Warwick — 
the whole extending from the mouth of the Pawtuxet River to East Green- 
wich, more than twenty miles in length — has been " the shore " for the largest 
portion of the state and the adjoining territory to the westward. The farming 
and manufacturing population in the interior and in the adjoining regions ot 
Connecticut, have for generations made annual summer pilgrimages to these 
shores for the purpose of enjoying on the spot the clam-bakes, the chowders, 
and the fish-fries that nowhere else could be had in such perfection. They 
came in parties, large and small, sometimes only remaining long enough to dig, 
cook, and eat their clams ; at other times encamping on the shores for days and 
weeks, as inclination and means dictated. Such has always been the popularity 
of these summer feasts that the more remote residents looked forward to going to 
"the shore" as the great event of the season, while those nearer and with 
the means of getting there were, in general, frequent visitors. 

Although the building of the railroads, the founding of the shore resorts 
shortly before 1S60, and their development since, has done away with the 
necessity of driving to the shore, digging your clams, and cooking them yourself, 
many people prefer this old-fashioned method, and the west shore is the place 
where those who enjoy the individual exertion of getting a clam-dinner in the 
original way still resort. On holidays in summer and on Sundays, all along 
from Field's Point to Pawtuxet, and from there to Rocky Point, may be found 
little parties of city or country people down for the day, enjoying the sea breeze T 
and enjoying still more the old-time clambake. 

The Warwick and Oakland Beach Railroad, built in 1S74, running from 
half a mile to a mile from the shore from below Pawtuxet to Warwick Neck, 
and terminating at Oakland Beach, was not at first a success, and was discontinued 
after running two summers. But in 1SS0 it was reopened by the New York, Prov- 
idence and Boston Railroad Company, and has been operated continuously since. 
By its means an impetus was given toward the erection of residences on eligible 
situations on the shore nearest the railroad, and as a consequence the region has 
developed to a considerable extent, an extensive settlement of summer homes 
now stretches along the shore, and the locality bids fair to become a populous 
district as its beauties are seen and appreciated. 

About ten miles from the city, on the south shore of Turtle Cove, is River 
Dale, formerly Mark Rock already mentioned, and now containing the homes 
of a few summer and permanent residents. The shore here is a fine sandy beach, 
extending for about two miles to the extremity of Conimicut Point. From the 
blurts at River Dale the view is excellent. A mile away to the northward is 
Greene's Island, connected with the mainland by a sandy bar uncovered at low 
tide, and this island is one of the chief clam-digging places in the state. Across 
the bar between this island and the mainland the famous Gaspee Point is 
plainly visible, while over the bay northeasterly, pleasing glimpses of the 
eastern shore and its numerous resorts greet the eye, Nayatt Point, directly east, 
standing out conspicuously. 



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Of Steamer " Eolus." 



Half a mile eastward from River Dale is 
Shawomet Beach, a settlement of about a 
score of red-roofed, tasteful cottages, a dozen 
of them in a line, not more than fifty feet 
from the beach, which here is of smooth, 
level sand, and the outlook is similar to that 
at River Dale from a different point of view. 
Shawomet Beach station is only a short dis- 
tance from this pleasant group of cottages. 
A short distance beyond is a large, elegant 
mansion, with redout-buildings and a large, 
substantial red farm-house, the property of 
the Hon. Stephen Harris, one of the chief 
men of Warwick. This neighborhood is the 
head of Conimicut Point, a long, narrow, 
sandy peninsula, extending for a half mile or 
more into the bay, on the extremity of which are a number of dingy buildings. 

Extending along the shore south from the point is River View, and the 
railroad station and a hotel here located are all called by the same name. The 
houses are more scattered than at Shawomet Beach, but they are as numerous 
and not more than a quarter of a mile from the latter place. During the past 
spring many improvements have been made here, and River View is, for con- 
venience of access, location, wide and good roads, one of the best resorts on 
the bay. A wide avenue leads down to the shore from the station. 

A quarter of a mile further is Bay Side, where there is also a station and 
a hotel of the same name. The hotel was formerly known as the Long Meadow 
House. A new Methodist Episcopal Church was built here this season. Be- 
yond, and near Grant's Station on the railroad, are the house and grounds of 
the Warwick Club, a private association of Providence business men. A mile 
further along the liver road is Rocky Point, the noted shore resort. 

All the way from Shawomet Beach through River View, Bay Side, and 
beyond, the region is dotted with cottages, not very thickly, it is true, but still so 




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close together that they may he said to he in a continuous line, and the majority 
of them are so located as to afford excellent views of the bay and the neighbor- 
ing and opposite shores. 

OLD WARWICK. 

The country westward from these groups of summer houses, as far as the 
water-shed of the Pawtuxet River, is very level, and has accordingly been known 
as the Warwick Plains. In this region, near the head of the neck, is Old War- 
wick, a centre for the original settlers, where they came to church and to trade, 
and a little hamlet still exists at the cross-roads. There are several ancient 
dwellings here of which the most noticeable is the Lippitt House, said to be 
two hundred years old. 

WARWICK NECK. 

Extending southward from Rocky Point is a narrow peninsula, surrounded 
by water on all sides except the north, and with the Warwick Neck Lighthouse, 
a conspicuous object, on its extreme southern point. The Neck is an elevated 
ridge sloping gradually each way from the centre towards the shores, and is 
crowned with many fine villas and cottages owned and occupied in the sum- 
mer season by prominent citizens of Providence. The locality bears a strong- 
resemblance to portions of Newport in the beauty of the houses and grounds, 
the elegance of the surroundings, and the fine and well-kept avenues. A good 
hotel, the Warwick Neck House, is situated on the main avenue in a command- 
ing location. 

An avenue leads over the highest portion of the Neck to the lighthouse, 
and from it really magnificent views are had of the bay and shores on either side. 
To the east, Bristol, Warren, the adjoining shores and waters, and from some 
points Fall River, are visible, while the reaches of the bay and the islands to the 
southward complete the picture. To the west, Oakland Beach, the Buttonwoods, 
and the shores of Greenwich Bay lie spread out at the observer's feet. Beyond is 
East Greenwich on the high western shore, and through the natural defiles, we 
catch glimpses of the villages back in Warwick, the whole landscape spread out 
before the eye like an immense profile map, and constituting, for variety and 
beauty, pictures of natural scenery unsurpassed in the state. 

ROCKY POINT. 

The largest, most famous and popular resort on the bay is Rocky Point. 
It is located on the west shore about twelve miles below Providence, on the 
northeast shoulder of Warwick Neck, in the township of Warwick. The Point 
is noted for the great diversity of its natural beauties, its broken surface, combin- 
ing hill and dale, rocks and glens, its bold, rocky bluffs, high enough above the 
water to give a commanding view of the bay and shore for miles around, with 
most of the grounds pleasantly shaded by a handsome grove of native growth. 
In the rocky hillsides of broken ledges and huge boulders are numerous caves 
and cavities, and these covered with shrubbery and luxuriant clusters of trailing 
vines, give a unique "effect, a peculiar fascination, and a wildness of beauty to 
the scene. 



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There are fountains, parterres 
of flowers, winding concrete 
walks and groups of buildings 
devoted to every variety of amuse- 
ment, with other artistic attrac- 
tions which greatly increase the 
interest of the crowds of visitors 
to this favorite summer resort. 
So many and varied are its 
scenes and attractions that all 
classes of excursionists patronize 
and greatly enjoy this popular 
place. After the burning of the 
hotel and the adjoining buildings, 
in March, 1883, handsome new 
buildings were erected for the 
accommodation of the public, 
and the Warwick Arms Hotel, 
retired a little from the busy 
front, and overlooking the bay 
southward, has been the only 
hotel on the premises since 
then. The buildings, consisting 
of a pavilion and a dining-hall 
directly on the shoie near the 
landing, are the largest on the 
bay devoted to the business of 
catering to the multitude in the 
matter of shore dinners. 

The bracing air, the fine south- 
ern view of the bay and islands, 
and the good bathing, choice 
table and quietude, make this a 
charming seaside home for a 
short or a long tarry. Rhode 
Island's great sea-shore celeb- 
rity, the "clam," is also a cen- 
tral attraction at Rocky Point, 
and at the proper season and 
hour it is served here in excellent 
style. 

The Point has also other allure- 
ments to suit the various tastes of 
the multitudes that every summer 
seek its shores for recreation ; among them are the fine bathing beach, houses, 
and appurtenances, just north of the landing. Here is a large hall for music 

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and dancing for all who wish, and swings and flying horses to please the chil- 
dren and keep them good natnred ; bowling alleys and shooting galleries for 
all who seek such sport as that. Here, too, is the monkey cage, containing 
twenty or more of these interesting creatures, always busy cutting up their 
" monkey shines," to the great delectation of the crowd of admiring young- 
sters, and affording merriment to all who visit them. A special attraction at 
Rocky Point is the strong well-built circular observatory standing on the 
highest spot on the place, and all the eastern shore from Providence on the north 
to Nayatt Point almost opposite can be plainly seen, while Warren, Bristol, Fall 
River, and Newport can be partially seen over the islands and intervening land. 
At our feet lies the main portion of the bay, with its many beautiful islands 
plainly in sight, and landward to the south is the high ridge of Warwick Neck, 
shutting out the view to the southwest ; while to the north and west, is the 
beautiful Warwick country and shore. 

Here the observer may feast his eye, and enjoy the landscape and sea-view 
in blended beauty as from few other points of view. Here he can see the entire 
length of the island of Rhode Island, from Bristol Ferry to Newport, with its 
handsome farm-houses and farms and the marked lines of stone wall fences, and 
the busy steamers passing to and fro on the bosom of the bay add much beauty 
and animation to the charming scene which is well worth the labor of climbing 
the tower to see. Among the many beautiful and attractive places on Narragan- 
sett Bay, none afford a greater variety of entertainment or more extensive facili- 
ties than Rocky Point. 

A new attraction at the Point this season is the water slide situated in 
front of the pavilion by the side of the wharf. Above water it is about 200 
feet long, and the boat, or car, will proceed 150 feet farther into the 
water, making a slide of about 350 feet. The boat is about fifteen feet in 
length, and slides on a hard-pine track, which it descends at a very rapid rate. 
There is just enough salt spray thrown when the water is reached to make the 
trip exhilarating. 

OAKLAND BEACH- 

One of the most noted and popular of the prominent shore resorts of Nar- 
ragansett Bay is Oakland Beach, located between one and two miles west 
from Rocky Point on the southern extremity of the peninsula of Horse Neck, front- 
ing on Greenwich Bay. It was first opened to the public by the Oakland Beach 
Association in 1S73. The Oakland Beach Hotel, located on the western borders 
of the grounds, and surrounded with numerous shore attractions, has established 
an excellent reputation and popularity. The large dining-hall at the beach is 
very spacious, roomy, and cool, with seating capacity for 1,200 persons, wnich 
can be readily extended to accommodate 5,000, if required, and gives ample 
scope to cater comfortably for the largest parties that can congregate there. 

The Pavilion, the large building near the beach, Sox '150 feet, is made a 
delightfully cool and comfortable place for visitors by opening its sides outward, 
thus forming a shady awning, giving free admission to the refreshing sea breezes. 
The pleasant, airy dance hall, with excellent music and ample room for all, will 



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VIEW ON MAIN STREET, WARREN. 



be made more attractive to the dancers than ever. The English Coach Cafe, 
the unique ice-cream and refreshment saloon, is continued as one of the peculiar 
features. Oakland Beach is now owned by the Oakland Beach Association, 
composed of a number of prominent citizens of Providence, and during the 
season of 1888 will be under the management of Mr. R. A. Harrington. 

The twenty-five safe and handsome row boats for excursions on the creek, 
the flying-horses, swings, and other amusements for the children and juvenile 
excursionists, the bowling saloon, base ball, foot ball, and cricket grounds for the 
older pleasure seekers, all easily accessible at the Beach, furnish ample and 
varied amusements for visitors. Now-a-days all Providence people go to the 
Beach by railroad, but it is one of the most popular resorts for excursion parties 
by water on steamei-s or sailing craft, and entertains large companies from Paw- 
tucket, Fall River, Newport, and other places, who come by water. The 
Rhode Island militia for several years past has held its annual encampment at 
the Beach, on each occasion passing a week doing camp duty. This year the 
troops will go into camp here on Monday, August 6th, and remain until the 
following Saturday morning. 

One of the attractions added this season is an aquatic toboggan, an am- 
phibious creation invented and patented by Mr. Harrington, which is both 
interesting to behold, and affords much sport to the younger excursionists. A 
light boat slides down an incline 165 feet long, into the lake. The voyager 
sails far over the surface of the lake, and the boat is drawn back and up the 
incline by an endless cable. The boats are double-enders, carry four persons, 
make the distance in three seconds, and the slide and sail are both perfectly safe 
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THE BUTTONWOODS. 

About half a mile west of Oakland Beach is a long stretch of sand} shore 
known usually as the " Buttonwoods," and famous in local annals as a great 
clam-digging and clam-eating resort. 

The " The Buttonwoods Beach Association," in 1S7 1 , purchased a large 
tract of land at the east end of the beach, erected a large hotel, and platted their 
land for cottage lots, and since then a large number of tasteful cottages have 
been erected, forming one of the most beautiful residence resorts on the bay. 
The fine beach is over a mile in length, and affords facilities for bathing, boat- 
ing, and fishing equal to any other place on the bay. East Greenwich lies in 
view to the west and can be reached in thirty minutes by water ; Rocky Point 
lies about the same distance away to the eastward. 

Directly south of the Buttonwoods, on the opposite shore of Greenwich 
Bay, lies Potowomut Neck, occupied by farmers and summer residents. This 
is a favorite summer resort for many prominent city families, who wish for a 
quiet retreat and love the real Rhode Island country style of living which thev 
secure here. 

" Old Buttonwoods," the western end of the beach, is probably the oldest 
resort on the bay. Here the farming population have been in the habit of 
coming to get their shore dinners for generations. During the celebrated presi- 
dential campaign of 1S40, a great political clambake was held here. Button- 
woods is the terminus of the Warwick and Oakland Beach Railroad. 

APPONAUG- 

Apponaug is a little village at the head of a short inlet which makes in 
from the northeast corner of Geenwich Bay, and is one of the quaintest and 
most ancient looking places in the state. It consists of two streets crossing- 
each other at right angles, lined with comfortable houses, some of them of a 
very antiquated appearance. The Warwick town-house is on the principal street 
and here the whole town always came to vote until a few T years back w r hen 
election districts were formed in the more populous villages westward. An 
extensive print-work is located here, but has been idle for the past five j'ears, 
and the only other manufactory is a small woolen concern. Many of the 
inhabitants make a living " along shore." The Hon. Charles R. Brayton, one of 
the most conspicuous leaders in Rhode Island politics at present, is a native of 
this village. A small stream flows into the inlet on which Apponaug is located, 
and is the outlet of a large pond lying back of the village. This body of water 
is named Gorton Pond, from Samuel Gorton, the founder of the colony of 
Warwick, which was one of the four original towns in the state, and Gorton 
was a very unique character, to whom justice, as compared with the laudations 
1 'cstowed on his contemporaries, has hardly been done. 

EAST GREENWICH. 

On a steep hill-side, facing eastward along the shores of the southw r est corner 
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a mile or more, is the village 
of East Greenwich, the chief 
place in the township of that 
name, and the county seat of 
Kent County. The New York, 
Providence and Boston Rail- 
road runs along between the 
base of the hill and the shore, 
and the traveler in a passing 
train has thereby a panoramic- 
view of the entire surround- 
ings. The chief streets run 
parallel with the shore, as far 
as the conformation of the land 
will admit, and are intersected 
by most of the hillside streets 
at right angles. These latter, 
running from the railroad on 
the shore to the top of the hill, 
are. with few exceptions, very 
steep. 

Main Street, the business 
thoroughfare, is half way up 
the slope, and on it are the old 
Court House and the new 
Town Hall, a beautiful Queen 
Anne structure. Above, on 
the brow of the hill, are the 
large buildings of the East 
Greenwich Academy, the Epis- 
copal Church, a fine stone 
structure, and the Baptist 
Church, a new and tasteful 
wooden edifice. The dwell- 
ings upon the slope of the hill 
are attractive residences, many 
of them the homes of people 
doing business in the city, 
which can be readily reached 
on account of the excellent ser- 
vice of the New York, Provi- 
dence & Boston Railroad. The 
academy is an educational in- 
stitution under the auspices of 
the Methodist Episcopal denomination, and dates back to the beginning of the 
century. It is in a flourishing condition and has an excellent reputation. 




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The town of East Greenwich was incorporated in 1677, and is therefore 
one of the oldest in the state. In its early history, because of its excellent har- 
bor, great commercial prosperity was anticipated, which was not realized, 
although at one time it had considerable commerce. Manufacturing was early 
introduced. At present the place has a woolen mill, a yarn mill, a bleachery, 
saw mills, and some minor industries. The Union Mill, corner of Union and 
Main streets, formerly engaged in the cotton manufacture, has been idle for a 
number of years. 

Greenwich Bay is the best fishing ground for scallops on Narragansett Bay ; 
clams and quahaugs are plentiful on its shores, and the oyster is also found in its 
waters. The bay, sometimes called Cowesett, is about two miles wide by four 
in length. Because of the abundance of shell fish man}' of the inhabitants make 
a living by the fisheries, and the " rights of the shore " were the means by which 
many a family, when the factories were closed some years ago, during the busi- 
ness depression, were enabled to keep the wolf from the door. Greenwich 
Bay is reserved by law for free fisheries, no portion of it can be leased for oyster 
beds, and this gives the people on its shores opportunities greater than enjoyed 
elsewhere in the state. 

A peculiar feature of the place is a locality known either as " Shanty Town" 
or "Scallop Town," at the foot of a projecting bluff between the railroad and 
the shores of the cove, and opposite the southern part of the compact town. It 
consists of a hundred or more small houses, all close to the water's edge — some 
even standing on piles below high water mark, — and all unpainted, crooked, 
patched up, and dilapidated in general appearance. The dwellers here get a 
living by fishing ; but as scallops are the most plentiful, the settlement has been 
named after them " Scallop Town," and judging from the number of shells of 
that species to be seen on its one street, this suburb of East Greenwich deserves 
its name. Many of its inhabitants are colored people. 

Across the cove from'East Greenwich is the peninsula of Potowomut Neck, 
said to have been a favorite camping-ground for the Indians, and where they in- 
dulged in clambakes. It is now occupied by the summer homes of affluent 
Providence families. 

On account of its elevated situation, splendid views of the adjoining lands 
and waters are had from many points on the upper streets. The tower of the 
Academy building is, however, the best place for a comprehensive outlook. 
The entire expanse of Greenwich Bay and the whole of Potowomut peninsula 
lie beneath the eye, spread out so near at hand that every variation of the coast 
line can be clearly seen. The Buttonwoods, Oakland Beach Hotel, the dwellings 
and light-house on Warwick Neck, are within easy range of vision. Eastward 
the spires of Bristol, and beyond on the horizon, the huge factories, with their 
tall chimneys out of which the smoke curls up, in the southern part of Fall 
River, can be quite clearly discerned with the aid of a glass, although eighteen 
miles away. The islands of the bay are also readily picked out : nearest and 
directly opposite us, is Patience, then Prudence, Hog Island, and as we sweep 
the bay with our field glass, the whole western coast line of Rhode Island and 
Conanicut passes before us. Northward in the foreground is Hill's Grove, the 



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tall, chimneys of the Pumping Station, and on the horizon the towers and 
spires of Providence. To the west and south are plains, and miles away, low 
hills, the backbone of the state. 

WICKFORD. 

On the western shore of the bay, ten miles south of East Greenwich and 
twenty from Providence, is located the pleasant village of Wickford, on a bay 
of the same name, one of the oldest settlements in the state. A small amount 
of manufacturing is carried on. Wickford is the largest and most important 
village in the town of North Kingstown and is the seat of the town government. 
In the village are two banks, two churches, a town hall, and a goodly number 
of handsome dwelling-houses. Many Providence people and others have sum- 
mer residences here, and several hotels in the village and vicinity do a good 
business. 

The residents find good bathing at Cold Spring Beach, near by, and " The 
Cedars," an attractive woodland grove two or three miles south of the village, 
is a favorite resort of Wickford folks and their guests for picnic parties and 
rural reunions. From here it is a very pleasant country drive often miles south 
to Narragansett Pier. The Wickford Branch Railroad connects with the New 
York, Providence and Boston line at Wickford Junction, and with Newport by 
steamer from Wickford. 



CONANICUT ISLAND.- JAMESTOWN. 

Conanicut Island, the second largest island in the bay, is nine miles in 
length by two in breadth, and is divided into two unequal parts by Mackerel 
Cove. It lies southwest of Prudence, and its southern extremity is midway be- 



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tween Narragansett Pier and Newport. The southern portion of the island re- 
sembles a beaver in shape, the northern section of which is known as Beaver 
Head and the southern point as Beaver Tail, upon which is located the noted 
Beaver Tail Light-house. At the southern extremity of the north or larger sec- 
tion of the island is a rocky promontory, upon which are the remains of the old 
redoubt known as Fort Dumpling. The island was incorporated as a town and 
named Jamestown, November 4, 1768, and has the smallest population of any 
town in the state. For the past few years it has attracted many summer resi- 
dents, whose dwellings are now scattered over the island. At the north end of 
the island is Conanicut Park, where are a number of cottages and a hotel. The 
steamers plying between Providence and Newport, and between Wickford and 
Newport stop here. 

Opposite Newport is the village of Jamestown, consisting of less than a 
hundred houses and several hotels situated on a slope facing the water. A 
steam ferry connects Newport with this place which is near the central portion 
of the island. 

The Newport and Jamestown Steam Ferry and Navigation Company the 
first week in July, began running a steam ferry boat from the west side of Co- 
nanicut Island to South Ferry on the shores of the town of South Kings- 
town, connecting across Conanicut Island with the Jamestown Ferry, the dis- 
tance overland being only about a mile. This is the route of the old South 
Ferry, the chief highway between the South County and Newport before the 
era of railroads and steam navigation, and the new facilities afford opportunity 
to drive from Newport to Narragansett Pier, the route including five miles 
of travel by water and six by land, and it would be difficult to find a more en- 
joyable journey. 

At the extreme north end of the island stands a light-house recently estab- 
lished by the government, and a new shore drive of five miles, alone the line of 
which the scenery is of surpassing beauty, connects the east ferry landing at 
Jamestown with Conanicut Park. 

Mr. Daniel Watson's plan, to cut a canal through the island, as a means of 
shortening the time, by about one hour, between Newport and New York, is 
attracting much attention, and the charter for the Newport and New York 
Rapid Transit Company, was recently accepted by the company which he has 
formed. This company proposes to have a steamboat landing almost exactly 
in the middle of the island (in the canal midway of the east and west shores of 
the island) . The line has the right, under its charter, to contract for making 
connection with the Narragansett Pier Railroad. The plan is for the new com- 
pany to construct a railroad to run from Eaton's Ferry, on the Narragansett 
shore, to the Pier road, or to some point on the Shore Line, the canal steamer 
from Newport to make railroad connection at Eaton's Ferry. The great 
progress made by Conanicut Island as a watering place within a few years 
is largely due to the public spirit and enterprise of Mr. Watson. 

Among the cottage owners on this island are Admiral David D. Porter, 
Captain Thomas O. Selfridge ; Medical Director, David Kidleberger, United 
States Navy; Joseph' Wharton, Wistar Morris, Charles W. Wharton, General 



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BURNSIDE MEMORIAL BUILDING, BRISTOL. 

Robert E. Patterson, Philadelphia ; Professor C. W. Larnecl, West Point, 
N. Y. ; Charles Fletcher, Richard J. Arnold, Providence ; Mrs. Harriet L. 
Stevens, H. Audley Clarke, Daniel L. Hazard, Newport ; George B. Emmons, 
Boston ; Mrs. A. E. Tilden, New York City ; Mr. C. A. Mann, Washington, 
D. C, Mrs. E. P. Rhett, Baltimore. The artist Richards, too, has his summer 
residence here, and when he bought the site upon which he has built he re- 
marked that he expected to do the best artistic work of his life on Conanicut. 
Among those who have recently bought land on this island are the Hon. Wayne 
McVeigh, of Philadelphia ; D. Bethune Durfield, of Detroit, Mich. ; Dr. Wil- 
liam Argyle Watson, of New York ; Judge Russell Houston, of Louisville, Ky., 
and Robert B. King, of St. Louis. 

THE ISLANDS. 

The state of Rhode Island is very appropriately named, as the islands of Nar- 
ragansett Bay comprise a lai - ge portion of its area. The full name of the state, 
" Rhode Island and Providence Plantations," comes from the fact that the sepa- 
rate colonies of Rhode Island and of Providence Plantations were consolidated 
by the terms of the royal charter, and when they declared their independence, 
they retained the old name. Rhode Island, however, being the first part of the 
title is all that is used except in legal or official documents, 'and thus the name 
which properly and originally belonged to the island, is now, by common usage, 
the name of the state. But Rhode Island or Aquidneck, as originally known, is 
the proper name of the largest and most beautiful of the islands in Narragan- 
sett Bay, and contains the towns of Portsmouth and Middletown and the city of 
Newport. 

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Williams, the founder of the state, who was the first man to till its soil. It is 
the third largest island in the bay, being six miles long by three wide, and is 
very irregular in shape. The Newport steamers make a landing several times 
a week. From a comparative desert with a dozen houses inhabitedjw' tillers 
of the soil, the island has, within a few years, blossomed out as a family summer 
resort, the main portion of which is near the centre of the island and is known 
as Prudence Park. Here there is now a casino, a summer pavilion, and several 
new residences have been. erected this season. Prudence divides the commerce 
of the bay, the New York and southern steamers passing out to the westward of 
it. wdiile the Fall River and sometimes the Providence and Newport steamers 
pass it to the eastward. 

Patience and Hope Islands lie to the west of Prudence, Patience being the 
largest and situated near the north end of Prudence. Hope Island, nearly as 
large as Patience, is situated off the south end of Prudence, midway between 
that island and the Kingston shore. Despair Island, sometimes'associated in 
name with the others, is a mere speck of an islet lying near the north end of 
Hope. 

Dutch Island is situated in the "West Passage," midway between Conani- 
cut Island and the main land, and comprises about three hundred acres. It was 
very earl)' used as a trading station by the Dutch, which gave it the name, and 
in 1658 was purchased from the Indians by the colony of Rhode Island. In 
1864 it came into possession of the United States Government, and upon it were 
erected extensive earth-work batteries, designed to command the " West Pas- 
sage " entrance to the bay. During the War of the Rebellion it was the ren- 
dezvous of the Fourteenth Regiment, Rhode Island Heavy Artillery. Dutch 
Island Harbor is deemed by coastwise navigators one of the best " havens" of 
the entire Atlantic coast. 

"Whale Rock," located near the entrance to the West Passage is a noted 
and dangei-ous rocky ledge of only half an acre in extent, but though a very small 
island it has been the scene of many a shipwreck, and has long been the dread 
of mariners. The iron light-house erected a few years ago upon this ledge fur- 
nishes the long-needed protection of voyagers from its dangers. 

Dyer's Island is a small island lying off the west shore of Portsmouth. 

Gould Island, lying east of Conanicut, contains only about one hundred 
acres of land, and is the property of Mr. Homans, of New York. The steamers 
plying between Providence and Newport pass close to it, and it is within five 
miles of the latter place. A small island of the same name lies in the Seaconnet 
River between Rhode Island and the mainland. 

Hog Island, at the mouth of Bristol Harbor, is about the same size as 
Prudence. 

In and around Newport Harbor are a number of islands, all of which 
belong to the United States Government. The largest of these, Coaster's 
Harbor Island, separated from Newport by a narrow strait and formerly a part 
of the city, was presented several years ago to the United States Government 
for a naval station, to which purpose it is now entirely devoted. Rose Island, 



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THE B. M. C. DURFEE HIGH SCHOOL, FALL RIVER 

in Newport Harbor, north from Fort Adams, has on it an important light-house. 
Goat Island is directly opposite Newport, and has a light-house and the United 
States Torpedo Station located upon it. Lime Rock, a small islet between Fort 
Adams and Newport, has a light-house, the home of the celebrated Ida Lewis. 
Besides these important islands, there are numerous small ones scattered all 
along the shores, many of which are the rendezvous of fishermen. 



FALL RIVER. 

* Fall River is the principal seat of the cotton manufacture in the United 
States, nearly one-seventh of the entire amount being carried on in its borders. 
It lies on the eastern border of Mount Hope Bay, at the mouth of the Taunton 
River,' and the greater portion is built on hillsides rising quite abruptly from 
the water's edge to a height of more than one hundred and fifty feet. From 
the summits of these hills the country extends back in a comparatively level 
table-land, on which a large section of the city now stands, and two miles east- 
ward from the shore lies a chain of deep and narrow ponds, eight miles long, 



ALONG SHORE. 



of an average width of three-quarters 
of a mile, covering an area of 3,500 
acres. These ponds are supplied by 
springs and brooks, draining a water- 
shed of 20,000 acres, and arc con- 
nected with the sea by a stream 
which, originally flowing unconfined 
over an almost level course for more 
than a mile, in the last half mile of 
its progress rushes down the hillside 
in a narrow, precipitous, rocky chan- 
nel. In this distance the total fall is 
about 132 feet, and the volume of 
water 122 cubic feet per second. 

Massive factories, each several 
hundred feet in length, five and six 
stories in height, the majority of 
them built of granite, loom up in 
every section of the city and suburbs, 
and in their neighborhoods are the 
houses inhabited by the operatives, 
consisting in many instances of long 
buildings, or large detached blocks 
in rows similar to the factory villages 
throughout New England, although 
in Fall River they are on a much 
larger scale, and some of the tene- 
ment blocks are as large as small fac- 
tories elsewhere. These houses are 
mostly built of wood, although in a 
few instances they are of brick, and 
belong to the mill corporations. The 
number of corporations engaged in 
the cotton manufacture is thirtv- 
eight, owning fifty-seven mills, con- 
taining 1,823,472 spindles, and 41,219 
looms, and employing 19,195 per- 
sons. The production of print cloths 
is the leading specialty, but in the 
past few years the making of wide- 
goods, sheetings, twills, lawns, and 
various fancy patterns has been intro- 
duced. These goods have met with 
ready sale because the development 
of taste has created a demand for a 
greater variety of style than had for- 
merly been manufactured. Besides 




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the cotton corporations there are twenty others not including railroad, steam- 
boat, and telpehone companies, engaged in various industries, namely, calico 
printing, bleaching and dyeing of cotton goods, manufacture of cotton and 
other machinery, cotton thread, woolen goods, comforters, felt hats, boots, 
shoes, etc. 

SEACONNET POINT. 

The " Land's End " of the mainland of the state on the east side of Nar- 
ragansett Bay is Seaconnet Point, the southern extremity of the township of 
Little Compton. It is one of the most picturesque bits of land on the Rhode 
Island coast, but on account of the difficulty of getting there, it remained in 
rural seclusion until recently. Many years ago there was a hotel here which 
had to be discontinued for lack cf "business, but this season a new one, "The 
Sakonnet" has been opened by Mr. J. L. Slocum. The only means of reach- 
ing the point has been by the mail stage from Fall River, or by private con- 
veyance, until, in 18S6, a small steamer began running from Providence, and in 
1SS7 two steamers were on the route all summer. 

A number of summer "•cottages," in reality, fine residences, have, within 
the past few years, been built, and the locality has attracted many artists, fisher- 
men, and other lovers of nature. Several prominent Providence gentlemen 
have their summer houses here, among them being Dr. C. T. Gardner, the 
Rev. Thomas R. Sheer, and W. H. Low, Jr. 

Just oft' the Point, perched on the rocks, are the white houses with their red 
roofs, of the West Island Fishing Club, an association of men prominent in 
social and business circles. The coast in the neighborhood of the Point is a 
wild jumble of ragged rocks, but the country back of it is mostly broad meadow 
land. From the Point toward the east can be seen Gay Head, Martha's Vine- 
vard, and the island of Cuttyhunk, while westward Point Judith is sometimes 
seen, but the ocean edge of Newport generally forms the horizon line. Be- 
tween these widely separated points, the ocean lies before the observer unob- 
structed in all its grandeur. 

Seaconnet River is that part of Narragansett Bay between the island of 
Rhode Island and the townships of Tiverton and Little Compton. It is about 
ten miles in length by one and a half in average breadth, and is sometimes 
called the East Passage. At the north it is connected with Mount Hope Bay by 
a strait, which is spanned by the "Stone Bridge" so called, joining Rhode 
Island to the mainland. A mile above this bridge, the Old Colony Railroad 
also crosses on a fine bridge. 



Part Third. 



CHAPTER !. 

ItrmpijrK lire tfl-tvj hi] ik$ j|iM<. 

ITS POSITION AS A RESORT OF FASHION THE HARBOR ITS TERRITORY THE OLD AND 

NEW TOWNS — CLIMATE EARLY HISTORY DEVELOPMENT AS A SUMMER RESORT 

A WALK TO THE POINTS OF HISTORIC INTEREST — DOWN BELLEVUE AVENl'E THE 

SI MMER RESIDENTS — OCEAN DRIVE OTHER DRIVES — THE BEACH — THE CLIFF 

WALK SACHUEST BEACH AND PURGATORY THE SEWERAGE ANDWATKR SUPPLY 

HARBOR EXCURSIONS TO FORT ADAMS, JAMESTOWN, AND THE TRAINING SHIP THE 

CHURCHES — THE STREETS BUSINESS CONDITION HOW TO GET TO NEWPORT. 

Seated on the 
southern extremity 
of Rhode Island at 
the main entrance to 
Narragansett Bay, 
Newport, with its 
halls and towers is 
a veritable queen of 
the waters, and its 
fame as the summer 
metropolis of wealth 
and fashion is world- 
wide. Other places 
have a fame and 
standing and attrac- 
tions of their own, 
but they do not rival 
j Newport nor com- 

BlllBilllBM P etc w ith ner < for 

"V., . ^ - ._., ^-^jjr^r ' : "^ the devotees of all 

3 ^ £=sSs= " <;^*s«=si^^ t j ie otner centres of 

A SOUND BOAT. r , . 

summer fashion 
gravitate to "the city by the sea" as naturally as flowers turn to the sun. 

Nowhere on our Atlantic coast can be found a better harbor. Its deep 
waters, its perfect security — being sheltered from the storms of the ocean on 
all sides — and its ample size, render it a favorite haven of refuge for vessels 




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FORT DUMPLINGS. 



in distress. During the sum- 
mer its placid bosom is 
always dotted with graceful 
yachts, and it is frequently 
visited by the war vessels of 
our own country and of for- 
eign powers, whose officers 
are attracted by the cultured 
and cosmopolitan society 
here assembled. In the win- 
ter the coasting schooners 
and coal barges often anchor 
in the inner harbor when 
wind bound, and large fleets 
of fishing vessels come in 
during their season. 

The territory of Newport 
comprises the southern portion of the island of Rhode Island, forming an elbow- 
shaped peninsula, of an average width of about two miles, the harbor being 
on the inside. The townships of Middletown and Portsmouth occupy the 
central and northern portions of the island, and contain some of the finest and 
most productive farms in the state. 

The city is really divided into two parts. All that section near the wharves 
and for some distance back is the old and historic Newport, and is the seat 
of the business of the city. Here are still to be seen many old houses with 
gambrel roofs or pro- 
jecting eaves, built 
previous to the Revo- 
lution, and most of 
them have interesting 
histories of old colon- 
ial days, famous fam- 
ilies, or revolutionary 
events. The appear- 
ance of antiquity is 
further heightened in 
this quarter by the nar- 
rowness of the side 
streets, lined in places 
with the ancient 
houses. Thames, the 
chief street of the city, 
runs the entire length 
of this older section, 
and on it is transacted 
most of the business 
of the permanent THAMES STREET . 




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FORT ADAMS. 



residents. It is a narrow thoroughfare, and between it and the harbor on the west 
are all the wharves, on many of which are work-a-day, unpainted, and tumble- 
down looking buildings. On this account the first view of the queen of water- 
ing places is somewhat of a disappointment to strangers, but to those familiar 
with the city it is rather an added charm, indicating the glories of the past in a 
graphic and interesting manner. 

Lying to the east and south of the older portion, on the ridge of the penin- 
sula, on all the intersecting avenues, and all along the bold and picturesque 
coast, are palatial mansions, known by the unpretentious name of " cottages," 
but in reality many of them palaces, rich in treasures of wealth and taste, 
and fitted up with all imaginable luxury. They are embowered in trees, sur- 
rounded with pleasant lawns, some perched on the edge of cliffs overlooking 
the sea, and nearly all within sight and hearing of the ever-restless ocean. 

The climate of Newport is peculiarly equable and soft, and is adapted 
to invalids at all seasons of the year. While the icy current from Labrador and 
Newfoundland pours into Massachusetts Bay, the south shore is struck by the 
warm current from the tropics, which is thence deflected by Cape Cod toward 
Ireland. This gives to Newport its mild atmosphere and the comfortable 
waters, adapted for bathing during the three summer months. 

Newport was first settled in 1639, by a portion of the exiled company 
of Puritans from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. By reason of its excellent 
harbor, in colonial days it became the most important commercial port on the 
Atlantic coast, even surpassing New York. It was then, as now, noted for its 
charming climate and beautiful scenery, and was the centre of the best, the 
most learned and cultured society in America. During the Revolutionary War 



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the commerce 
was destroyed, 
and at its close 
Newport recov- 
ered but slowly 
from the devas- 
tating effects, 
and never re- 
gained its com- 
mercial posi- 
tion. 

In 1830 the 
prospects of the 
town began to 
brighten, about 
which time the 
present "order 
of the town " 
was really inau- 
gurated, and 
boarding-house 
keepers were 
taxed to their 
utmost to ac- 
commodate the 
summer visitors 
who flocked 
hither from all 
parts of our 
country. Soon 
after this large 
hotels and cot- 
tages began to 
be erected, and 
the town grad- 
ually gained the 
coveted reputa- 
tion of the wa- 
tering-place of 
America. It 
became a city in 
17S3; in 1787 

surrendered its charter, and remained under 
when a second city charter was obtained. 

The best place to start from for a brief view of the chief points of interest is 
Washington Square, a wide, open space an eighth of a mile in length, with a 



THE LIME ROCK LIGHT. 



a town government until 1853, 



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PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT, 



park-like inclosure called the Mall on the 
south side. On Thames Street at the foot of 
the square is the City Hall, built in 1763 ; 
in the Common Council Chamber, in the 
second story, can now be seen the escutcheon 
and portrait of William Coddington, the first 
governor of the island. At the head of the 
square is the State House, erected in 1741, 
where the May sessions of the Rhode Island 
Legislature are held and the state officers 
installed in office, the result of the election 
being proclaimed from the balcony. At the 
foot of the small inclosed park is a statue of 
Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, commem- 
orating his great victory on Lake Erie in the 
War of 181 2, and on the pedestal is in- 
scribed the celebrated report made by him 
on that occasion: "We have met the 
enemy and they are ours." On the south 
side of the square, just above the opera house 
and directly opposite the statue, is the man- 
sion where the great naval commander lived 
both before and after his famous victory. 

On Clarke Street, leading out of the 
square to the south, is the armory of the New- 
port Artillery, which contains an interesting 

and valuable collection of relics. On the opposite side, corner of Mary 

Street, is the Vernon house, where Washington was entertained on his visit to 

Count Rochambeau at Newport, in 17S1. 

Returning to the square and proceeding up Touro Street we soon reach 

Spring Street. A short distance northward on 

this latter street on the right-hand side opposite 

Stone Street, is the oldest house in Newport, 

built of stone in 1639, by Henry Bull. It has 

been renovated and restored, and bears a some- 
what modern air. Returning and continuing 

our journey up Touro Street, we immediately 

come upon the Jewish Synagogue on the left, 

a small stone structure erected in 1763, and 

used as a place of worship until the Revolution. 

Services are now regularly held therein every 

Friday and Saturday. Abraham Touro, a Jew- 
ish merchant, left the sum of $20,000 in 

charge of the town, the interest to be expended 

for the care of the ancient edifice and its sur- jqhn q weaver 

rOUndingS. Senior p ropri etor of the Ocean House. 




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STATUE OF COM. O. H. PERRY. 




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On the lot adjoining the synagogue is the Newport Historical Society's 
building, originally the church of the Seventh-day Baptist Society, which was 
erected in 1729, and from whose pulpit the Rev. Mr. Callendar preached his 
famous centennial discourse in 1738. It stood on Barney Street until 1S87, 
when it was removed to its present location. The edifice was purchased by the 
Historical Society in 1884, and was dedicated November 10th of that year, 
having been renovated and restored so as to preserve its historic features. Tt 
stands a short distance back from the street, and is a rather plain-looking, 
wooden structure, and its dimensions are thirty-seven feet front by twenty-seven 
deep. A wide gallery runs around three sides of the interior, an old-fashioned 
pulpit overshadowed by a sounding board faces the entrance, and on the gallery 
fronting the pulpit is an old clock made by William Claggett in 1 73 1 . On the 
wall back of the pulpit are two tablets containing the Ten Commandments. The 
entire edifice is filled with books and relics, among the latter being pictures of 
many of the old houses and land-marks of the city, with numerous other inter- 
esting historical mementoes. The Newport Historical Society was organized 
in 1853 and incorporated the following year. From 1877 until the purchase of 
its present building it had its home in the Redwood Library building. For the 
study of the antiquities of Newport the rooms of the society afford the best, and 
it may be truly said, the only facilities in the city, and they are open to the pub- 
lic every day, except Sundays and holidays, from 10 A. M. to 2 p. m., and also 
on Tuesday evenings. 

Leaving the Historical Society's building and proceeding up Touro Street, 
the next object of interest is the Jewish Cemetery, corner Kay Street. The 
fence and gateway were erected in 1843, by Judah Touro, and are maintained 
and kept in repair from the proceeds of a fund left by him for that purpose. 
From this point the street takes the name of Bellevue Avenue. On the south 
corner of Church, the next street to the right, is the Newport Reading Room 
Club House, a large, square, wooden building, the headquarters of an incorpo- 
rated society of wealthy residents for literary and social purposes. 

A short distance beyond on the left, south corner of Redwood Street, is the 
Redwood Library, which was incorporated in 1747, and the original building 
completed in 1750, is still standing, although an important addition to the rear 
was built a few years ago. The library is a private institution, but is open to 
the public at certain hours each day (from 12 to 2 p. m.). The paintings and 
statuary in the rooms are well worth a visit. 

A few steps further bring us to Touro Park, a large open space in the cen- 
tre of which is the Old Stone Mill, one of Newport's chief attractions. So far 
no absolutely authentic evidence has been produced as to the date of its erection, 
and the theory at one time was widely prevalent that the Northmen, who are 
supposed to have visited these shores about the year 1,000, built it. Longfellow 
in his poem " The Skeleton in Armor," adopts this tradition. Recent investiga- 
tion, however, has led local antiquarians to the belief that it was built by the 
early settlers, and it is said that very conclusive evidence in this direction is now 
at hand. 

Between the avenue and the old mill stands the handsome bronze statue 



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THE CASINO, BELLEVUE AVENUE. 



of Commodore M. C. Perry, the younger brother of Commodore Oliver Haz- 
ard Perry. The younger Perry was instrumental in effecting the treaty with 
Japan in 1854, and this monument was erected by his daughter, Mrs. August 
Belmont, of New York. 

On Pelham Street, almost opposite the Old Stone Mill, is the Channing 
Memorial Church, erected in 18S0 in honor of William Ellery Channing, the 
great apostle of Unitarianism, who was a native of Newport. The church is 
an elegant stone structure, in early English gothic style, and has a beautiful 
tower with a spire 125 feet in height. 

From Touro Park for a distance of about an eighth of a mile, the avenue 
on both sides is lined with summer stores, and a few hotels and restaurants. 
Many of the shops are branches of New York houses, and they all cater to the 
wants of the summer visitors. During the winter this region is a "deserted 
village," and the gay windows are covered with shutters. Bath road, the main 
thoroughfare to the beach, runs out of the avenue in this section. At the south 
corner of Bath road, on the left, is Travers block, the most ornate of the build- 
ings devoted to summer shops. Just beyond it is the Casino, the chief of New- 
port summer institutions. The building has a frontage of 186 feet, and is in 
imitation of the old colonial style of architecture, the first floor being occupied 
by stores and the upper part by the stockholders. In the grounds to the rear 
are a theatre, a tennis court building, and an extensive bowling alley. The 
question will be asked, " What is the Casino"? and the answer, as near as can 
be given without entering into tedious details, is that it is an association of gen- 
tlemen who, in connection with an elegant private club, have introduced means 
for the entertainment of the fashionable society around them. The Casino 
was erected by James Gordon Bennett, but in 18S0 it became the property of a 
joint stock company, incorporated under Rhode Island laws. 



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THE GRAND DRIVE — BELLEVUE AVENUE. 



Across 
the avenue 
from the Cas- 
ino is James 
Gordon Ben- 
nett's " stone 
villa," a 
square gran- 
ite mansion, 
situated on a 
terrace a 
short dis- 
tance back 
fromtheroad- 
way. On the 
right, down 
Jones Ave- 
nue, is the 
residence of 
Mrs. Paran Stevens, where the Duke of Marlboro was entertained in 1887 and 
feted by Newport society. Next south on the left, on the corner of Bellevue 
Avenue and Bowery Street, is the Ocean House, the property of John G. 
Weaver & Son. It is the largest wooden building and the largest hotel in 
Newport. 

Bellevue Avenue is a continuation of Touro Street, and was originally known 
as South Touro Street. It was opened after Newport began to develop as a 
summer resort, and runs from Kay Street to Bailey's Beach in an almost straight 
line for two and a quarter miles along the summit of the ridge of the peninsula. 
For the whole distance it is lined on both sides with the most elegant residences 
in the city. It is the principal promenade and drive of the fashionable society 
in the season, and on it at the regulation hour may be seen such a display of style 
and fashion, of wealth, elegance, and beauty as no watering-place in all the 
country can out-rival. The most brilliant equipages, in styles the most unique, 
from a jaunty dog-cart, or pony phaeton, to a spanking four-in-hand, with here 
and there a dashing cavalier, all whirling along this famous " drive," bearing 
their precious freight, — men of wealth, of rank, of learning ; women of beauty, 
culture, and refinement; and merry children, with bright, laughing faces. All 
are in happiest mood, exchanging salutations as they pass ; noting a strange or 
beautiful face ; commenting on the last new turnout ; observing the landscape ; 
indulging in pleasant banter, or in more serious converse. The scene is not a 
dull one nor uninteresting. It gives us a glimpse, a passing outside glance, at 
society life in Newport, which we would not have missed, and which we can 
take away with us and study at our leisure. 

Having strolled through that portion of Newport from Washington Square 
to the Ocean House, and seen all the objects of historic interest, the best manner 
of continuing the sight-seeing is to take a drive. If you wish to " do the town " 



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L45 



in grand style and 
with the most com- 
fort, you will hire a 
carriage and driver. 
If, on the other 
hand, either neces- 
sity compels econ- 
omy, or taste in- 
clines you to be 
democratic, you 
had better take a 
drag or barge, as 
the commodious 
stage coaches ply- 
ing to all points of 
interest, are called. 
They are of various 
sizes and will ac- 
commodate from 
fifteen to thirty per- 
sons. They start 
from the steamboat 
landing, from 
Washington Sq., 
and from Touro 
Park, but by wait- 
ing a little on the 
avenue one will be 
certain to pass. 
For a short jour- 
ney, to visit the 
beaches or for a 
view of the ave- 
nue, these convey- 
ances have many 
recommendations, 
as they afford facil- 
ities for reaching 
every locality of in- 
terest and leave 
you free to embark 
or disembark at 
will. For the long- 
er drives a more 
expensive turnout 
is a necessity. 

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in one of these coaches. Already in our 
pedestrian stroll we have passed a num- 
ber of elegant residences, but our atten- 
tion has been distracted by other objects 
of interest. In the region we are now 
entering, however, there is nothing to 
divert attention from the summer palaces. 
Without attempting to give a complete 
inventory we will only notice the most 
striking, or those rendered interesting 
from the renown of .their occupants. 
Entering the stage in front of the Ocean 
House on the south corner of Bowery 
Street, almost opposite is the large brick 
mansion, the property of the Duchess 
de Dino, formerly Mrs. F. A. Stevens, 
of New York, who after her divorce, 
which created much sensation at the 
time, married the Marquis de Tallerand- 
Perigord, February, 18S7, from whose 
father she received her present title. On 
the left north corner of Berkeley Ave- 
nue is the residence of John G. Weaver, 
proprietor of the Ocean House. The 
house burned several years ago by Kate Judd, now serving a sentence in the 
State Prison for that offense, stood on this site. 

On the right north corner of Perry Street, is the handsome Queen Anne 
villa of the Hon. Isaac Bell, Jr., late minister to the Netherlands. Directly op- 
posite is k ' Snug Harbor," formerly the residence of Rear Admiral C. H. 
Baldwin, U. S. N. 

After passing down the avenue for the next half mile between many very fine res- 
idences, we see on the left, a con- 
siderable distance from the road- 
way, the residence of ex-Governor 
George Peabody Wetmore, a 
colossal stone villa, one of the 
most expensive places in New- 
port. Half way up the drive- 
way leading to the house is a free- 
stone archway, with a cottage on 
the left embowered in English 
ivy. The next estate on the left 
south corner of Shepard Avenue, 
formerly belonged to James R. 
Keene, of New York, the well- 
known stock broker, and the 



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HAPPY VALLEY. 



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foundation walls of his villa, which 
was burned Dec. 31, 1880, are yet vis- 
ible. 

Two streets beyond south, corner 
of Ruggles Avenue on the left, is the 
estate of the Hon. Levi P. Morton, the 
present nominee of the Republican 
Party for the vice-presidency. Still 
on the left, south corner of next street, 
Marine Avenue, is " By the Sea," the 
villa of August Belmont, the well- 
known New York banker. Just be- 
yond on the right, north corner of 
Bancroft Avenue is a mammoth 
wooden house, the residence of Theo- 
dore A. Havemeyer, the Austrian Con- 
sul General in New York. Opposite 
the Havemeyer villa is a short court 
leading down to the house of. the Hon. 
George Bancroft, the historian. 

Just beyond the Havemeyer place, 
but on the opposite side of the street, 
is the estate of William Astor, of New 
York. The house is in spacious 
grounds, which run to the cliffs. The 
next i-esidence but one on the left is 
that of W. W. Astor, son of John 
Jacob Astor. The house was for- 
merly known as the " Barreda Place," 
being built by the Spanish minister of 
that name. 

A quarter of a mile further and 
Bellevue Avenue turns a right angle 
to the west. At the outside of the 
angle on the left is the magnificent 
new house of Frederick W. Vander- 
bilt, situated almost directly on the 
cliffs, and commanding a wide out- 
look over the sea. It occupies the 
estate formerly owned by Jacob Dun- 
nell, of Pawtucket. 

About a quarter of a mile from 
the turn Bellevue Avenue terminates 
at Bailey's Beach, and on this short 
stretch there are some very elegant res- 
idences. Bailey's Beach is a smooth 
little beach about a quarter of a mile 
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the end of the avenue. From here also the graded cliff walk starts, and a walk 
of a short distance along the cliffs will bring you to a wooden observatory, 
somewhat shaky, it is true, but from which you will have an excellent view of 
the cliffs to the southwest. On the further side of the beach perched on 
the rocks is the residence of Henry Clews, the New York banker, and in the 
mass of rocks to the southward of this house is Spouting Rock, through 
which the water is forced in a jet during powerful southeast storms. 

When returning from the end of the avenue if you form a party you can get 
the driver to take another route back. Returning along Bellevue, turn down 
Marine Avenue, then into Wetmore Avenue on the left, passing a number of 
very beautiful houses on either side. Then turn to the right into Ruggles 
Avenue and take Ochre Point Avenue, the second street to the left. The first 
house on the right as we turn into Ochre Point Avenue is the residence of Cor- 
nelius Vanderbilt, formerly the property of Pierre Lorillard. On the side tow- 
ard the cliffs, north corner of the next street, Shepard, is the beautiful residence 



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built by Miss Catherine Wolfe, and now belonging to Louis Lorillard. On the 
right is the estate of J. J. Van Allen, whose house of cream colored stone fronts 
on Lawrence Avenue. A short distance further, on the right, are the "cot- 
tages" of Ogden Goelet and Robert Goelet, both estates fronting on the cliffs, the 
latter being at the foot of Narragansett Avenue. Across the street from Robert 
Goelet is the estate of the late W. R. T ravers, of New York. A short drive up 
Narragansett Avenue brings us to Bellevue Avenue and we return to our start- 
ing point. This drive takes us past the most stylish and expensive group 



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of Newport's summer residences. If the 
visitor wishes to continue the pleasure of 
inspecting these beautiful abodes a drive 
from the union of Touro Street and Belle- 
vue Avenue, through Kay Street, Rhode 
Island Avenue, Buena Vista Street, and 
Gibbs Avenue to Bath Road, will afford 
all requisite opportunity. 

The grand drive in Newport is around 
Ocean Avenue, sometimes called the ten 
mile drive from the fact that the circuit 
from Washington Square and return is be- 
tween ten and eleven miles. The first 
portion of this drive is up Touro Street 
and along Bellevue Avenue already de- 
scribed. Starting from Bailey's Beach the 
road follows the indentations of the shore, 
affording magnificent views of the rocky 
coast. In arranging for this drive it is an 
easy matter to get a driver who can point 

out the different residences and the places of interest, but the chief attraction is 
the scenery. On the return half of the circuit very fine views of the city and 
harbor are obtained. 

Other drives to the northward, along either shore of the island, through 
beautiful scenery, and past historic places, will amply repay the cost of time and 
money which you can justifiably spend upon them. 

Two miles across the city from the landing of the Providence and Wick- 
ford boats is Easton's Beach, one of the chief attractions of Newport. During 
the season the coaches already mentioned ply regularly from the boats and trains 
to the beach, and for ten cents any of them will carry you there. The route is 
directly east over the neck of the peninsula, first up some of the narrow, hillside 
streets, then through the business portion 
of Bellevue Avenue and down the Bath 
Road to the beach. The first portion of 
the latter avenue is not at all a handsome 
neighborhood, but at the eastern end are 
the outposts of the summer residences, and 
in fact this highway is the dividing line be- 
tween the two chief groups. Approaching 
the beach the road leads down a steep in- 
cline and an excellent view is obtained of 
the long stretch of level sand with the surf 
dashing in upon it. The beach is at the 
head of an inlet open to the ocean from the 
south, on which account there is always a 
s^ood surf. It is smooth, wide, and level, the forty steps 




150 PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 

formed of fine, hard sand, and is nearly a mile in extent in a straight line. 
Formerly the bathing houses and the buildings for the accommodation of visi- 
tors were very dilapidated in appearance, but in 1887, extensive new structures 
were erected, the sea wall bounding the roadway was extended and repaired, 
the roadway rebuilt, the locality generally improved in appearance and made to 
correspond with modern Newport. These changes have rendered the beach 
more popular with the residents, among whom for years it had evidently fallen 
into disfavor. 

On the west side of Easton's Beach the shore is faced with cliffs of broken, 
jagged rocks, twenty or more feet in height, which extend all the way around 
to Bailey's Beach, and the residences on Ochre Point and on the east side of the 
lower part of Bellevue Avenue are nearly all so situated as to overlook the cliffs. 
For all this distance, about three miles, a graded path leads along the edge afford- 
ing magnificent views of the ocean on the one hand, and on the other the finest 
views of the gardens and homes of the summer residents to be had in Newport. 
Various spots in the rocks have been given names and are connected with story 
and legend. At the foot of Narragansett Avenue are the Forty Steps, so called, 
where there was originally a number of natural steps in the rocks leading down 
to the water, but these having crumbled away are now replaced by a wooden 
stairway. Many of the residents along the cliffs have private stairways, locked 
and barred, leading down the face of the rock to the water, and the jutting 
headlands are dotted with little summer houses. 

But although this pathway just described is justly called the " cliff walk," 
it is not the only pathway by the sea. In Oldport Days, by Thomas Went- 
worth Higginson, is a very comprehensive description of the walk by the sea : 
" All round the shores of the island there runs a winding path. It is probably 
as old as the settlement of the country, and has been kept open with pertina- 
cious fidelity by the fishermen, whose right of way it represents. In some 
places, as between Fort Adams and Castle Hill, it exists in its primitive form, 
an irregular track above rough cliffs, where you look clown upon the entrance 
to the harbor and watch the white sailed schooners that glide beneath. Else- 
where the high road has usurped its place and you have the privilege of the 
path without its charm. Along the eastern cliff' it runs for some miles in the 
rear of beautiful estates, whose owners have seized on it and graded it and grav- 
elled it and made stiles for it, and done for it everything that landscape garden- 
ing could do, while leaving it a footpath still. In remoter places the path grows 
wilder and has ramifications striking boldly across the peninsula through rough 
moorland and among great ledges of rock." 

Beyond Easton's Beach and separated from it by the peninsula of Easton's 
Point is Sachuest Beach, which is much larger than Easton's, but not so safe, 
which fact, together with its distance, two miles beyond Easton's, causes it to be 
almost wholly neglected. On the east side of the peninsula and fronting on 
Sachuest Beach is a deep yawning crevice in the face of the cliff, 160 feet long, 
8 to 14 feet wide, and 50 feet in depth. The sea flows into it at the bottom of 
the cliffs. It is known as Purgatory, and there are various legends connected 
with it. 




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From the summit of the precipitous cliffs in the neighborhood of Purgatory, 
the scenery within range of vision is probably the most picturesque in the vicin- 
ity of Newport. Sachuest Beach, in its whole extent, is seen at once, while a 
few hundred rods to the northward are a series of rugged, rocky ridges, broken 
up into crags and peaks, rising to a height of fifty feet or more, and separated 
from each other by deep valleys or gullies. At the southern extremity of the 
most eastern ridge are the Hanging Rocks, where the famous Dean, afterwards 
Bishop Berkeley, is said to have penned his most celebrated writings. The 
Happy Valley of Paradise is a small, level vale, inclosed on all but one side by 
the high cliffs, and is in close proximity to the Hanging Rocks. None of the 
localities just mentioned are in Newport, but in the adjoining town of Middle- 
town. 

In the past Newport has been careless about perfect sanitary arrangements, 
but the matter was agitated for years, and as a result a good system of sewerage 
is in operation, and although the entire city has not yet been furnished with the 
means of utilizing it, the work is being pushed rapidly forward. In 1S85 a 
plan was agreed upon providing for the discharge of the sewerage into Narra- 
gansett Bay, west of the Goat Island Breakwater, by means of a submerged iron 
pipe across the bottom of the harbor. During 1SS7 the pipe was laid and the 
outlet constructed 300 feet beyond the breakwater, and sewerage began to flow 
through August 1st, 18S7. About one-third of the city is provided for by new 
sewers, and as others are now in process of construction, before the end of the 
present season the major part of the city will probably be provided for. 
November 9, 1887, the City Council voted $S8,ooo for the further carrying out 
of the system in the lower part of the city, and for diverting into the new system 
the sewers which now flow into the inner harbor. 

An excellent system of water works was built some years ago by George 
H. Norman. The water was at first wholly obtained just north of the beach 
from Easton's Pond, on the west side of which the pumping station is located, 
but this supply not proving as satisfactory in quality as desirable, a further sup- 
ply has been obtained from the pond near the Hanging Rocks. The city was 
given the option of purchasing the works after they were put in operation, but 
the electors voted not to do so, and they are now operated by a joint stock com- 
pany. 

Not the least of the attractions of Newport are the short excursions that can 
be made to points in and about the harbor. You can go to Fort Adams, to the 
United States Training Ship, to Jamestown, and if you have audacity and 
influence, to the Torpedo station. Fort Adams, one of the strongest fortifica- 
tions in the country, guards the entrance to the harbor between Newport and 
Conanicut Island. You can drive there, a distance of between three and four 
miles, or if you have friends or acquaintances in the fort you will be allowed to 
go over in the government tug boat, the distance across the harbor being less 
than a mile. On the way Lime Rock Light is passed in the upper part of the 
harbor near the shore, on the rock of the same name, and the keeper of the 
light is Ida (Wilson) Lewis, a brave woman who has acquired a national rep- 
utation for the daring manner in which, at various times, she has rescued persons 
fiom drowning. The. tug starts from Ferry Wharf at foot of Market Square. 



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THE GLEN. 



The fort is an immense struct- 
ure, the parade-ground in the inte- 
rior covering no less than eleven 
acres, and there is an extensive re- 
doubt to the south. Half a mile 
beyond along the inner shore is 
Brenton's Cove, the head of the 
harbor. On the south side are 
frowning cliffs, and the place would 
look well in a picture under the 
title of " Pirates' Haven." A num- 
ber of old hulks line the shore, in 
all stages of dismemberment ; this 
locality, on account of being out of 
the way, has been used as the place 
to beach old wrecks and let them 
break up. Captain Cook's ship 
Endeavor was here left to rot 
many years ago. To carry out the 

idea of its being a pirate's harbor, the story has gained credence in some quar- 
ters that Captain Kidd's ship was left here, and some of the soldiers will point 
out to you the ribs of the old vessel to this day. 

The United States Training ship New Hampshire^ moored off the south- 
ern end of Coaster's Harbor Island, which lies along the shore at the north of the 
harbor and city. The island formerly belonged to the city, but was ceded 
to the government several years ago on condition that it would be used 
for a training school. The large white building on the slope of the hill is the 
War College, formerly the Almshouse of Newport. Visitors can drive to the 
island and inspect the college and the ship, but if you exercise a little diplomacy 
you may be allowed to go in the launch which starts from Commercial Wharf 
about every hour. 

The Torpedo Station is on Goat Island which separates the inner harbor 

from the main passage into the 
bay, and lies about half a mile t 
from Newport's wharves. Strang- 
ers ;ue not allowed on the island, 
as the work of the station is the 
construction of and experimenting 
with sub-marine projectiles, and 
visitors might be exposed to danger 
or would be in the way. If you 
are acquainted with one of the of- 
ficers you may, however, get an 
opportunity to go over in the steam 
launch which makes frequent trips 
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the island from the wharves or from the deck 
of a steamer is usually quite sufficient, and it 
presents the appearance of a place of residence 
or of trade with hardly any warlike character. 
But the finest harbor excursion is over to 
Jamestown on Conanicut Island by the steam 
ferry boat, a distance of about two miles. 
Leaving the wharf we move across the harbor 
and out of it to the north passing Goat Island 
on the left with its long breakwater at the 
north end, terminating in a light-house. On 
our right while skirting the breakwater, are 
capt. thosTcrosby. Long Wharf and the Old Colony Railroad 

wharves and docks, with some of the mam- 
moth vessels of the Fall River line lying alongside. Northward about three- 
quarters of a mile along the shore is Coaster's Harbor Island, with the training 
ship in the fore-ground. Circling around the end of the breakwater the boat 
heads due west, and we soon pass close to the south side of Rose Island, mid- 
way between Jamestown and Newport. Perched on the top of what appears 
to be an old fortification is Rose Island light, while beyond are evident remains 
of old earthworks. Directly south we have an excellent view of Fort Adams 
about a mile distant, while across the entrance of the bay from it is the historic 
Fort Dumplings perched on the rocky cliffs at the southeastern extremity of Co- 
nanicut Island. After passing beyond range of Rose Island to the northward 
about two miles away, in midchannel, standing up out of the water clear and 
distinct, is Gould Island, the property of Edward C. Homans, of New York, 
who has a summer residence on the island, which is also used as a rendezvous- 
for the New York Yacht Club. By this time we are in plain sight of James- 
town, which is a collection of less than a hundred houses, mostly summer i"esi- 
dences, of a good size and two or thi-ee hotels, situated on a gentle slope. A 
highway leads from the landing across the island, here only a mile wide, and 
at the other side, if you care to go, you can have a view of Dutch Island 
Harbor, a roadstead between the island of that name and Conanicut. The 
Kingston shore is also in full view, and to the south the southern portion of 
Conanicut Island with the narrow isthmus connecting it with the main island. 
This excursion probably affords the most varied illustration of physical geogra- 
phy in the neighborhood of Newport. 

Several of the existing church edifices are historic structures dating back to 
colonial times. Of these the Sabbatarian Church, now used by the Historical 
Society, and the Jewish Synagogue have already been mentioned. The most 
noteworthy, however, of all these edifices is Trinity Church, corner of Spring 
and Church streets, erected in 1725, and enlarged in 1762, which is worth a 
visit on account of the old-fashioned character of the interior. The meeting- 
house of the Society of Friends on Marlboro Street was built in 1700 but has 
since been reconstructed. It is a large plain edifice and in June of each alter- 
nate year, here are held the yearly meetings for New England. The oldest 



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THE MARQUAND COTTAGE. 

church organization is that of the First Baptist Society, which is said to date 
from the first settlement of the island. The present fine edifice, corner of Spring 
and Sherman streets, was erected in 1841. Of existing churches the finest 
structures are the Channing Memorial, Pelham Street, opposite Touro Park ; 
St. Mary's, Roman Catholic, corner Spring and Levin streets, and the United 
Congregational, corner Pelham and Spring streets. The colored people have 
three churches, a Baptist, a Methodist, and a Congregational, all in a flourish- 
ing condition. 

The streets of Newport while open to objection during rainy weather or in 
the winter months on account of not being as generally paved as in cities of its 
size, are yet, during the summer, probably better adapted to its own peculiar 
life than otherwise they would be. In the older portion the paving both in the 
roadways and on the sidewalks needs repairing, but a great deal has been done 
to remedy this recently. The avenues, however, are many of them macada- 
mized and make almost perfect roadways. 

Although possessing such splendid facilities for business afforded by her 
fine harbor and excellent railroad and steamboat connections, Newport has 
never been successful in manufacturing like other places in the state. At one 
time there were three cotton mills in operation, but they all met with misfor- 
tune in some shape or other, and to- day not a spindle revolves in the city. The 
Perry Mill still standing on Thames Street, near the steamboat landing, was- 
erected in 1835, but has been idle for years. A short distance further down on 
the same street is the Aquidneck Mill of which the stone part was built in 1831 
and the brick addition on the front in 1863 by the Richmond Manufacturing 
Company, when they purchased the concern. The mill is now idle, as are also 
the works of the Newport Shot and Lead Company adjoining. In 1837 tne Cod- 
dington Mill was erected near the end of Thames Street, but was burned De- 
cember 31, 1859, and was never rebuilt. 

In view of this dearth of manufacturing the question arises how the permanent 
population of 20,000 people earn a living. This is not, however, such a difficult 
question as at first appears. The government stations in and around the harbor 
give employment to many people who reside in the city, the Old Colony Railroad 



156 PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 

and the Fall River Line of steamers bring considerable work and business, 
there are a number of minor manufactures, such as fine furniture, rubber spe- 
cialties, etc., many fishermen have their homes here, and a great deal of business 
is done in catering to the summer visitors, so that, take it all in all, there is much 
more work than would be thought at first sight. But there seems to be some 
evidence that a revival of business is at hand as two electric light companies, a 
building association, a lath company, and a land company were formed the past 
spring. 

There are three routes to reach Newport from Providence and two from 
New York. From Providence you can go by the Providence, Warren & Bris- 
ton Railroad, via Warren and Fall River, the railroad skirting the shores of the 
bay for a large portion of the whole distance and affording many pleasant and 
some grand views ; the mo^t popular way, and in fact almost the only route 
from Providence patronized in the summer, is by the bay steamers from whose 
decks the shores and islands of the beautiful Narragansett please the senses with 
their ever-varying panorama ; the third route is by the New York, Providence & 
Boston Railroad, via Wickford, connecting at Wickford Landing with a steamer 
which, after an hour's sail across the bay, lands the traveler in Newport. 

The chief route from New York is by the Old Colony Steamboat line, but 
the Wickford line is also patronized by many on account of being nearly an all 
rail route. From Boston the main line of the Old Colony, running through Fall 
River, terminates at Newport. 

With a climate for mildness and equableness unsurpassed on the Atlantic 
coast, a purity of atmosphere resulting from the nearness of old ocean, a good 
water supply, a fine system of sewerage, broad avenues, beautiful homes, 
unequaled in the country, an old, historic town, a magnificent harbor, the city 
ought to continue to be a summer emporium of fashion, and with all these 
advantages should develop in other lines as well. 

The old Engs building, 203 Thames Street, corner of Lopez wharf, is said 
to have been, during the years when the slave trade flourished, the largest slave 
station in New England ; and some of the adjacent buildings still standing were 
used as slave pens. To-day, however, these premises are used for much differ- 
ent purposes, and Mr. J. H. Martin occupies the old slave mart with his fine 
stock of china, crockery, glass, fancy goods, and one of the largest assortments 
of Japanese ware in the country. Mementoes of Newport are here in abund- 
ance, so that a visit to the store will repay the trouble any time, for the oppor- 
tunities of inspecting the historical souvenirs, as well as the large selection of 
general novelties. 

With the improvements in sewerage that have been introduced in Newport 
the present and past years, increased attention is required to all forms of sani- 
tary plumbing. For all such work Joseph Haire, practical plumber, is well 
prepared, and has on hand all the latest improvements in closets, traps, wash 
bowls, and other appliances. At his place of business, 132 Spring Street, 
four doors north of Church Street, prompt attention is given to all orders. 



The Strangers' Guide-Newport. 



RESIDENCES OF SOME NOTED 
PEOPLE. 



Agassiz, Prof. Alexander, Castle Hill. 

Astor, William, Bellevue ave. and the Cliffs, south 
end. 

Astor, W. Waldorf. Bellevue Ave. and the Cliffs, 
south end. 

Bennett, James Gordon, Bellevue Ave. opp. Casino. 

Belmont, August, southeast corner of Marine and 
Bellevue aves. 

Bancroft, George, Bancroft Ave. and Cliffs. 

Brewer, Mrs. Gardner, Ledge Koad, Bellevue Ave. and 
the Cliffs. 

Blatehford, Justice Samuel, Greenongh Place. 

Bell, Isaac, Jr., northwest corner Bellevue Ave. and 
Perry. 

Bouaparte, Col. Jerome N., Harrison Ave. 

Baldwin, C. C, northeast corner of Narragansett and 
Bellevue aves. 

Ca.roll, Ex-Gov. John Lee, of Maryland, Clay. 

Cullum, Gen. George W., Sea View Ave. and the Cliffs. 

Clews, Henry, Ocean Ave. near Spouting Rock and 
Bailey's Beach. 

D'Hauteville, F. S. G., southwest corner Gordon and 
Bellevue Ave. 

Goelet, Ogden, northeast corner Ochre Point Ave. and 
Webscer, to the Cliffs. 

Goelet, Robert, foot of Narragansett Ave., on Ochre 
Point Ave. and the Cliffs. 

Gammell, William, Narragansett Ave. and the Cliffs. 

Gammell, R. H. I., Narragansett Ave. and the Cliffs. 

Howe, Mrs. Julia Ward, Lawton's Valley. 

Havemeyer, Theodore A., northwest corner of Ban- 
croft and Bellevue Aves. 

Hunt, Richard M., northwest corner of Church and 
Bellevue Ave. 

Kernochan, James P.. Marine Ave. 

Low, A. A., near Castle Hill. 

Luce, Rear Admiral S. B., Francis and Rhode Island 
Ave. 

Lorillard, Louis L., Shepard and Ochre Point aves. 
and the Cliffs. 

Marquand, Henry Q., northeast corner Rhode Island 
Ave. and Buena Vista. 

Stevens, Mrs. Paran, Bellevue Ave. and Jones, near 
Casino. 

Van Alen, J. J., Ochre Point and Lawrence Aves. 

Vanderbilt. Cornelius, south side Ruggles Ave., Ochre 
Point Ave. and the Cliffs. 

Vanderbilt, Frederick W., new house at the turn of 
Bellevue Ave., on Cliffs at Rough Point. 

Winans, Ross R., Ocean Ave. 

Weld, William G., northeast corner of Bellevue aud 
Parker Aves. 

Wetmore, Ex-Gov. George Peabody, Bellevue and 
Shepard Aves. 



POINTS OF INTEREST. 



Almy's Pond, near Bailey's Beach, north. 

Bailey's Beach, end of Bellevue ave. 

Black Rock, near Brenton's Point. 

Brenton's Point, the most southerly extremity of the 
Island, off Ocean ave. 

Brenton's Cove, head of harbor to southwest, near 
Fort Adams. 

Bull House (oldest in Newport), Spring Street, short 
distance from Washington square. 

City Hall, foot Washington Square, Thames street. 

Channing Memorial Church, Pelham, opposite Touro 
Park. 

Channing House (old), Thames Street. 

Children's Home, 24 School. 

Casino, 194 Bellevue ave. 



Coddington School. 

Castle Hill, Western extremity of peninsula, overlook 
ing main entrance to Narragansett Bay. 

Coggeshall Ledge, at end of Ledge Road. 

Castle Hill Point, northern point of Castle Hill. 

County Jail, 13 Marlborough. 

Cherry Neck, ocean road, just beyond Lily Pond. 

Cliff Walk, from Easton's to Bailey's Beach. 

Easton Beach, end Bath road. 

Easton Pond, north of Easton Beach. 

Fort Adams, entrance harbor. 

Fort Greene, on harbor, end Washington. 

Fort Walcott, near Fort Greene. 

Forty Steps, end Narragansett ave. 

Friend's Meeting House, Farewell and Marlboro. 

Gooseberry Island, off Cherry Neck. 

Goat Island, in harbor. 

Halidon Hill, overlooking harbor from south. 

High School. Church. 

Industrial School for Girls, Broadway 

Jewish Synagogue, Touro, near Washington Square. 

Jewish Cemetery, eastern corner of Kay Street and 
Bellevue ave. 

Liberty Tree, Liberty Square, junction of Warner, 
Farewell and Thames. 

Land's End, near end Ledge road, overlooking Bailey's 
Beach. 

Lily Pond, west of Almy's Pond and Bailey's Beach. 

Lime Rock (and lighthouse), in south part of harbor. 

Mason's Hall, corner Church and School. 

Music Hall, Bellevue ave., between Casino and Ocean 
House. 

Miantonomi Hill, an elevation 150 feet in height, a mile 
and a half north of Washington Square. 

Newport Gas Co., 181 Thames. 

Newport Artillery Armory, Clark. 

Newport Historical Society building, next above 
Jewish Synagogue on Touro. 

Newport Reading Room, corner Church street and 
Bellevue ave. 

Newport Hospital, 1« Howard ave. and Friendship 
street. 
Opera House, Washington Square. 
Old Stone Mill, Touro Park. 
Ochre Point, off Marine and Ruggles aves. 
Ocean House, Bellevue ave., corner Bowery. 
Perry House, Washington Square. 
Perry Statues: Com. Oliver Hazard Perry, Washington 
Square; Com. M. C. Perry, Touro Park. 
Parade, Washington Square. 
People's Free Library, 260 Thames. 
Polo Grounds, north end Thames. 

Price's Neck, Ocean Road, beyond Cherry Neck, U. S. 
Life Saving Station at its extremity. 
Rough Point, off F. W. Vanderbilt's house, Bellevue 

Rocky Farm Gully, off Ocean road, south from Lily 
Pond. 
Ragged Point, the southern point of Castle Hill. 
Ramshead, Castle Hill. 

Redwood Library. Bellevue ave., near Touro Park. 
St. Mary's Church (R. O), corner Levins and Spring. 
State House, head Washington Square. 
Sheep Point, Cliffs off Yznaga ave. 



Sporting Rock, west of Bailey's Beach. 
Telegraph Hill, F 
of Washington Sm 



felegraph Hill, Beacon Road, about five miles south 



Touro Park, Bellevue ave.. Pelham and Mill. 

Trinity Church, Spring, corner Church. 

United Congregational Church, corner Pelham and 
Spring. 

United States Custom House and Post-office, corner 
Thames and Frankliu. 

U. S. Engineer's office 

U. S. Torpedo Station, Goat Island. 

U. S. Naval Training Station, including Training Ship 
"New Hampshire," and the War College, on Coaster's 
Harbor Island. 

Vernon House (old), corner Clark and Mary. 

Water Works, Pumping Station, north shore Easton's 
Pond. 

Washington Square./Thames and Touro. 



PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 



POINTS OF INTEREST OUTSIDE 
CITY LIMITS.* 

Lawton's Valley about six miles north on west shore 
of Island. 

The Glen, about six miles north, on east shore of 
Island. 

Saehuest Beach, beyond Easton's Beach. 

Hanging Rocks, back of Saehuest beach. 

Happy Valley of Paradise, near Happy Rocks. 

Purgatory, on Cliffs west of Saehuest Beach. 

Whitehall, back of Happy Valley, ancient residence of 
Bishop Berkley. 

WHARVES. 

Aquidneck Mill, 447 Thames. 

Bull's 197 Thames. 

Bowen's, 259 Thames. 

Bannister's. 

Brown & Howard's, from 411 Thames. 

Champlin Wharf, 185 Thames. 

City Wharf, adjoining Long Wharf. 

Coddington, 513 Thames. 

Commercial, 303 Thames. 

Ferry, 241 Thames. 

Hammett's, 345 Thames. 

Kinsley's, 271 Thames. 

Langley's, 305 Thames. 

Lawton's. 

Lee's, 431 Thames. 

Long, 125 Thames. 

Lopez, 203 Thames. 

Old Colony, R. R. station. 

Perry Mill, 339 Thames. 

Peckham's, 215 Thames. 

Sherman's 159 Thames. 

Swinburne's. 173 and 213 Thames. 

Sayer's, 283 Thames. 

Scott's, 293 Thames. 

Swan's, 151 Thames. 

Spring, 469 Thames. 

Sisson's, 479 Thames. 

William's. 

Wait's, 495 Thames. 

HOTELS. 

Aquidneok House, Pelham, corner Corne. 

Bravton's, 38 & 44 Pelham. 

Cliff Avenue Hotel and Cottage, 20 Cliff Ave. 

Cliffton House, 113 Bellevue Ave. 

Germania Hotel, 22 State Street. 

Hartman House. 10 Bellevue Ave. 

Ocean House, Bellevue Ave. corner East Bowery. 

Park Hotel, Washington Sq. opp. State House. 

Perry House, Washington Sq. 

DEPOTS, 

Old Colony R. R., West Marlboro, near Thames. 
Old Colony Line, end of Long Wharf. 
Continental Steamboat Co., Commercial Wharf. 
Jamestown Ferry, Ferry Wharf. 

Newport & Wickford R. R. and Steamboat Co., Com- 
mercial Wharf. 

CEMETERIES. 

Friend's Cemetery, Tilden Ave. corner Kay. 
St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Warner and Spruce. 
North City Cemetery, Farewell. 
Island Cemetery, Warner. 

Old City Cemetery, Warner, adjoining Island Cemetery. 
Jewish Cemetery, corner Kay and Bellevue Ave. 

CHURCHES. 

All Saints' Memorial (Episcopal), Beach, corner Cot- 
tage. 

Central Baptist, Clarke. 

Channing Memorial. Pelham, opposite Touro Park. 

Emanuel, (Episcopal), Spring, coiner Dearborn. 

Friends' Meeting House, West Broadway and Marl- 
borough. 

First Baptist, Spring, corner Sherman. 

First Methodist, Marlboro, near Charles. 



Grace Chapel, Thames, corner Wellington ave. 

Mt. Zion A.M. E., Bellevue ave., next to Jewish Ceme- 
tery. 

Second Baptist, corner North Baptist and Farewell. 

Shiloh Baptist (colored), Mary, corner School. 

St. John, The Evangelist (Episcopal), Poplar. 

St. Marys R. C. Church, Convent and School, Spring, 
corner Levin. 

St. George Chapel (Episcopal), Rhode Island ave., near 
Broadway. 

St. Joseph Church (R. C), Touro, corner Clarke. 

Swedish M. E. Church, 173 Spring. 

Thames St. M. E., Thames, corner Brewer. 

Touro Synagogue, Touro St. 

Trinity Episcopal, Spring, corner Church. 

Union Congregational, Division, bet. Church and Mary. 

United Congregational, corner Spring and Pelham. 

PARKS. 

Touro Park, Bellevue Avenue, Mill and Belham, area 
18,350 so. ft. 

The Mall, Washington Square, Thames and Touro, 
area 17,750 sq. ft. 

Liberty Park, Marlboro, Meeting and Farewell, area 
2,500 sq. ft. 

Equality Park, Broadway and West Broadway, area 
13,250 sq. ft. 

Congdon Park, Broadway and Cranston, area 8,030 sq. ft. 

Morton Park, Coggeshall Avenue and Brenton, area 
534,800 sq. ft. 

FIRE DEPARTMENT. 

The apparatus consists of four steam fire engines, four 
hose reels, and one hook and ladder truck. 

FIRE STATIONS. 

Hose Tower and Battery Station, West Marlboro St., 
near O. C. R. R. Depot. 
Hook and Ladder No. 1, Long Wharf, near City Hall. 
Steam Fire Engine No. 1, Mill St., near Thames. 
Steam Fire Engine No. 2, Bridge St., near Third. 
Hose Reel No. 4. Equality Park Place. 
Steam Fire Engine No. 5, Touro. junction of Mary. 
Hose Real No. 6, Court, rear of old Gas Works, near 



Steam Fire Engine No. 7, Young, near Thames. 
Hose Reel No. 8, Prospect Hill Street, near Bellevue 
Avenue. 

PUBLIC SCHOOL BUILDINGS. 

Willow Street School, (Fee in Long Wharf Trustees), 
corner Willow and Third. 

Potter School, (Fee in Long Wharf Trustees), Elm. 

Farewell Street, Farewell, op. North Baptist. 

Edward Street, Edward, near Covell. 

Cranston Street, Cranston. 

Cranston Avenue, Cranston Avenue, near Broadway. 

Coddington School, Mill. 

Clarke Street, Clarke, rear of Artillery Armory. 

Rogers High School, Church, op. High. 

Lenthal School, corner Spring and Perry. 

Parrish School, (fee in private persons), South Spring, 
near Wheatland ave. 

PRIVATE SCHOOLS. 

St. Mary's Parochial, (Roman Catholic), Levin. 

The Newport Industriil School forGirls, 57 Broadway. 

Industrial School for Boys, Perry Mill Wharf. 

BANKS. 

Aquidneck National, 284 Thames. 
First National, 231 Thames. 
Merchants', 223 Thames. 
National Exchange, 38 Washington Sq. 
National Bank of Rhode Island. 303 Thames. 
New England Commercial, 263 Thames. 
Newport National, 8 Washington Sq. 
Union National, 260 Thames. 

SAVINGS BANKS. 

Coddington, 231 Thames. 
Island, 38 Washington Square. 
Savings Bank of Newport, 282 Thames. 



List of Newport Cottagers, 1888. 



Astor William, New York, Bellevue Ave. & the Cliffs. 

Astor W. Waldorf, New York, Bellevue Ave. and the 
Cliffs. 

Agassiz Prof. Alexander, Cambridge, Castle Hill. 

Aimon A. B., Salem, Mass., lied Cross Ave. 

Andrews Frank W., Boston, Maple Ave. 

Arnold Mrs. Samuel G., Providence, East Shore. 

Auchincloss Henry B., New York, Washington. 

Arnold Dr. F. S. E.. Youkers.N. Y., Carroll ave. 

Austin John C, Providence, Paradise ave. [Beach. 

Ashhurst Mrs. W. H., Philadelphia, Bellevue ave. and 

Appleton W. W., New York, (Whitehouse's) Rhode 
Island ave. sett ave. 

Auchincloss John W., New York, (Russell's) Narragan- 

Auchincloss Mrs. Elizabeth, New York, Washington. 

Backus Mrs. Dr., Baltimore (Hazard"s), Kay. 

Bell Isaac, New York, (King's) Narragansett ave. 

Brewster Mrs. Oliver, New York, (Townsend's) Kay & 
Brinley. [Island ave. 

Bacon Dr. Gorham, New York, (Yardley's) Rhode 

Boynton Jesse V., Providence, (Channiug's) Tucker- 
man ave. [ington. 

Bigelow Mrs. J. W., New York (Sanford's), Wash- 

Barger Samuel F., New York (Traver's), Narrrgansett 
ave. [Beach. 

Brownell Seth H., Providence. (Smith's) near Eastou's 

Beckwith N. M.,New York, (Weaver's) Bellevue ave. 

Belmont Mrs. O. H. P., New York, Webster. 

Bennett James Gordon, New York, Bellevue ave. 

Bancroft George, Washington, Bancroft ave. and the 
Cliffs. 

Blatchford Mrs. R. M., New York, Beach and Green- 
ough Place. [Place. 

Blatchford Justice Samuel, Washington, Greenough 

Blatchford Miss S. E , New York, Catherine. 

Brewer Mrs. Gardner, Boston, Bellevue ave and the 
Cliffs. [the Cliffs. 

Bancroft John C, Melrose, Mass., Bancroft ave. and 

Bowen Stephen, Boston, Spring. 

Bruen Mrs. Mary L., Boston, Bellevue ave. 

Belmont August, New York, Bellevue and Marine ave. 
and the Cliffs. 

Bell Dr. C. M., New York, Bellevue ave. and the Cliffs. 

Bull Charles M., Brooklyn. One Mile Corner. 

Baker Mrs. Richard Jr., Boston, Bellevue ave. and 
Ledge Road. 

Barstow Captain, U. S. A., East Shore. 

Barstow D. H., Boston, East Shore. 

Bryer Benjamin, New York, near Miautonomi Hill. 

Black Mrs. Francis L., New York, Honeyman Hill. 

Bonaparte Col. J. N., Baltimore, Harrison ave. 

Borden J. C , Fall River, Ocean ave. 

Borden T. W., Fall River, Ocean ave. [ave. 

Baldwin C. 0., New York, Narragansett and Bellevue 

Barret Mrs. Alexander, New York, Catherine. 

Bell Isaac Jr., New York, Bellevue ave. and Perry. 

Blight Atherton. Philadelphia, Bellevue ave. [ave. 

B ryce J. Smith, New York, Narragansett and Bellevue 

Berryman Mrs., New York, Rhode Island ave. 

Beeckmau Mrs. J. L., New York, Ochre Point. 

Carroll Charles, Baltimore, (Phelp's) Clav. 

Carroll John Lee, Baltimore, (Phelp's) Clay. 

Clift Smith, New York, (Stitt's) Bellevue ave. and 
Pelham [Island. 

Carlisle Mrs. M. E., Washington, (Douglass'.) Couamcut 

Cram Henry A., New York, (Hunnewell's) Yznaga ave. 

Caldwell Misses, New York, Kay and Ayrault. 

Cushing Thomas F., Boston, Bellevue ave. and the 
Cliffs. 

Coit Rev. Dr., Concord, N. H., Indian ave. [Corner. 

Cooke Mrs. Joseph J., Providence, near One Mile 

Chickering Charles F.. New York, Bellevue ave. [ave. 

Cnllum Gen. G W, U. S. Engineer Corps, Sea View 

Coukling F. A., Jr., New York, Pelham, Mill and George 
Streets. 

Coleman Samuel, New York, Red Cross ave. 

Coles Mrs. Elizabeth U , New York, Bellevue ave. 

Churchill Capt. C. C, U. S. Army, Ayrault St. 

Caswell John R., New York, Bull St. 

Cleveland Dr. Clement, New York, Merton ave. 



Cook Henry H., New York, Bellevue ave. and the Cliffs. 

Cadwalader John, Philadelphia, Bellevue ave. and 
Ledge Road. 

Cope M. C, Cincinnati, Washington St. 

Carley Francis D., Louisville, Ky., Bellevue ave. 

Clews Henry, New York, Ocean ave. near Spouting 
Rock. [Streets. 

Cunningham Dr. E. L., Boston, Catherine and Cottage 

Gushing R. M., Boston, Ocean ave. 

Cassels Col., Washington, (Wells') Conanicut Island. 

De Barrios, Madame Francisca, New York, not decided. 

Dutton E. P., New York, (Cooke's), Gibbs ave. 

Dunston H. R., New York, (Fearing's) Bath Road. 

Denison Mrs. H. A., New York, (Wildes') Kay St. 

Dore Mrs. John, New York, (Burrows') Gibbs ave. 

Davis Theodore M.. New York, Ocean ave. [vue ave. 

DeForest George B., New York, (Chickering's) Belle- 

Davies Julian T., New York, Purgatory Road. 

D'Hauteville F. S. G., New York. Bellevue ave. 

Dale Thomas N., Patterson, N. J., Gibbs ave. and Bue- 
na Vista St. 

Erving Mrs. Shirley, Boston, (Griswold's), Kay St. 

Evans Jonathan, New York, (Deas'), Eastou's Point. 

Eustis F. A., Cambridge. Mass., Conanicut Island. 

Ellis John W., New York, Bellevue ave. and the Cliffs. 

Edgar Mrs. William, New York. Beach St. 

Emmons Mrs. E. W., Boston. Gibbs ave 

Emmons A. B., Boston, Gibbs ave. 

Emmons G. B., Boston, Cuuanicut Island. 

Easton F. W., Pawtucket, R. I., Paradise ave. 

Fearing Daniel B., New York, Anuandale Road. 

Fearing George R., New York, Narragansett ave. 

Ferrill Joseph L., Philadelphia, Conanicut Island. 

Francis Rev. Lewis, Brooklyn, Honeyman Hill. 

French Abel, New York, Bellevue ave. and the Cliffs. 

French Francis O., New York, Halidou Hill. 

Freeman Francis P., New York, Bellevue ave. 

Foster John, Boston, Le Roy ave. 

Fiske Josiah M., New York, Ochre Point. 

Fellows F. W., New York, Washington St. 

Filley Mrs. O. B , St. Louis, Conanicut Island. 

Fry Gen. James B., U. S. A., (Breese's), Francis Street 
and Everett Place. 

French Seth Barton, New York, (Whipple's), Cliff ave. 

Fritsch Hugo, O., New York, Bellevue ave. [Cliffs. 

Geolet Robert. New York, Narragansett ave. and the 

Goelet Ogden, New York, (Sherman's) Victoria and 
Haggles ave. 

Gibbes Miss Sarah B., New York, Gibbs ave. 

Gibbes Miss Einily 0., New York, Rhode Island ave. 
and Beach St. 

Gibbs Major T. K., New York, Gibbs ave. 

Gibbs Prof. Walcott, Cambridge, Mass., Gibbs ave. 

Gibert Mrs. J. T., New York, Bellevue ave. 

Gammell William, Providence, Narragansett ave. and 
the Cliffs. 

Gammell R. H. I., Providence, Narragansett ave. and 
the Cliffs. [ave. 

Gammell William, Jr., Providence, (Carey's), Channing 

Greene C, Providence, Conanicut Island. 

Greene William B., New York, Malbone ave. and 
Broadway. 

Gray Mrs. M. E., New York, Narragansett ave. 

Griffith Dr. R. E., Philadelphia, Conanicut Island. 

Geraghty J. M., New York, (Brown's) Summer St. 

Grosvenor William, Jr., Providence, (Stout's), Bellevue 
ave. and the Cliffs. [Island. 

Green John P., Philadelphia, (Peckham's), Conanicut 

Green Mrs. J. C, New York, No. Si Pinard Cottage, 
Narragansett ave. [ave. 

Goddard E. Ely, New Y r ork, (Mueuchinger's), Bellevue 

Gregory Charles E., New York, (Case's), Kay St. 

Hargons R. L., New York, (not decided.) 

Harriman James, Boston, (Thayer's), Bellevue ave. 

Hayden Mrs. D. H., Boston, (Jay's), Buena Vista St. 

Howe Walter, New York.Beacou Hill. 

Hopkins Mrs. J. B.. Philadelphia, I lonanicut Island. 

Hutton G. M., Baltimore, Castle Hill. 

Homaus E. C, New York, Gould Island. [don aves. 

Hamilton Schuyler, Jr., New York, Harrison and Hali- 



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Howe Mrs. Julia Ward, Boston. Lawton's Valley. 
Hazard Rowland N., New York, One Mile Corner. 

Hoyt Henry S., New York, Beach st. and Sunnyside pi. 

Hartshorn Mrs E. G., Providence. Halidon Hill. 

Hoffman Miss Susan O., New York. Bellevue ave. 

Huntington Prof. John T., Hartford. Indian ave. 

Havemeyer Theodore A., New York, Bellevue ave. 

Hunt Richard M., New York. Bellevue ave. and Church. 

Herrick Elias J., New York, Clay st. 

Hamilton Dr. Allan McLane. New York, Price's Neck. 

Hodgson J. M.. New York, LeRoy ave. 

Howe Judge, New Orleans, (Fairehild's), Washington. 

Hills George H. B., New York, (Swift's), Bellevue ave. 

Hobbs Paymaster I. G., U. 8. N., (Hunter's), DeBlois 
ave. 

Hitchcock Mrs. Thomas, New York, (Hone's) Spring st. 

Harris R. Duncan, New York, Bellevue ave. [ave. 

Heckseher Mrs. John G.. New York, (Burrows'). Gibbs 

Hill Mrs. J. M., New York, Bellevue ave. [Cliffs. 

Ingersoll Mrs. H., Philadelphia. Yznaga ave. and the 

Josephs Lyman C, New York. Purgatory Road. 

Jones Mrs. George F., New York. Harrison ave. 

Jones Harry E„ New York Harrison ave. 

Jones the Misses, New York < Acosta's), Ochre Point. 

Jones Miss C. Ogden. New York. Ochre Point. 

Johnson Joseph G., Philadelphia, Bellevue Court. 

Jones Miss Emily, New York, Wellington ave. 

Johnson Levi, New Haven. Everett. [nanicut Is. 

Jenks Mrs. Hannah M., Philadelphia. (Howland's) Co- 
Kane Mrs. DeLaney, New York, (Langdon's), Sunnyside 
Place. 

King Ronald, Boston, Kay. 

Knowlton E. J.. New York (Warren's). Gibbs ave. 

K-ingsland William M., Searboro-on-Hudson (Pendle- 
ton's), Ochre Point. 

Kendall Mrs. S. A., New York, Washington 

Kerr William G., Brooklyn, Washington. 

Ketaltas Mrs. Eugene, New York, Webster 

Knower John, New York, Belle\ ue ave. and the Cliffs 

King Mrs. Edward, New York, Bowery and Spring. 

King LeRoy, New York, Bellevue and Berkeley aves 

KingG. G., New York, Beacon Hill. [Point. 

Kernochan J. P., New York, Marine ave. and Ochre 

Kmdleberger Dr. D., U. S. Navy, Conanicut Island. 

King Mrs. A. M., Hartford. Avrault. [ave. 

Leith Alexander J., New York (Griswold's), Bellevue 

Leary Arthur. New York. (Paul's), Mill. 

Lyon T., New York, (Groffe's). Ball. 

Livermore C. F., New York, (O'Brien's), Bellevue ave 

Livingston Edward, New York, Avrault. 

Logan Lieut. L. C, IT. S. N., Conanicut Island. 

LeRoy Mrs. Daniel, New York, Bellevue ave. 

LeRoy Stuyvesant, New York. Mann ave. 
., Llv .! n 5 stou Herman T., New York, Sea View ave. and 
the Cliffs. 

Liviugston Maturin, New York. Bellevue Court. 

Low A. A., Brooklyn, Castle Hill. 

Low Josiah O . Brooklyn, Castle Hill. 

Lyman Miss Florence. Boston, Webster. 

Ledyard Mrs. Henry, New York. Catherine. 

Lorillard Louis L., New York, Ochre Point. 

Lyman the Misses, New York, Webster. 

Lafarge John, New York, Sunnyside Place. 

Langdon Walter, New York. Sunnyside Place. 

Lusk Dr. W. T., New York (Bruen's), Bellevue ave. 

Livingston Mrs. Edward Louis, New York (Bush's), 
Avrault. [the Cliffs. 

Lawrence John, New York (Chanler's). Bath Road and 

Miller George M., New York, Bellevue ave. 

Mason the Misses, Boston, Bath Road and Rhode 
Island ave. 

Miller W. Starr, New York, Bellevue ave. 

Masten J. Griffith, Albany, Everett Place 

Morris Wistar, Philadelphia. Conanicut Island 

Morris Miss Jane, Philadelphia. Washington. 

McGlenen H. J., Boston, (Burkinshaw's) Howard ave. 

Moflat Miss Myra, New York (Hartshorn's), Halidon 

Mason A. Livingston, Providence. Halidon Hill. 

Matthews Mrs. Man, New York, Bellevue ave 
Com. W., U. S. N., (Weedeu's), 

Merritt George, New York. Bellevue ave. and Spring 
McClellan Dr. George, Philadelphia. Conanicut Island. 
Morrison W. H.. New York, Honeyman Hill 
Mahoney John H. New Yo'-k, Bellevue ave 
Marquand, Henry G., New York, Rhode Island ave. and 

Beuna Vista. 
McKay Gordon, Boston. Marine ave. 
Morehous C. P., Chicago. Howard ave 
Marin ('apt. M. C, U. S. N„ Kay 
Mann Henry A.. Washington, Conanicut Island. 
Mills, Charles K. Boston. ( Barker's i Paradise ave 
McKim Dr W. D., New York. (King's) Hellevue ave. 
Mitchell, Mrs. Alexander, Milwaukee ( Ferguson's) Hal- 

ld ° n T HlU „ ^ oi T [Rhode Island ave. 

McLureC. D., St. Louis, (Cushman's) Catherine and 
Mendelssohn, H. E. London (Gray's) Hellevue ave 
Meudes Rev. A. P., New York, (Engs') Brinlev 
Mitchell Dr. S. Weir, Philadelphia, (King & Wetmore) 

Parker ave. f ave 

£!?,$ l Thomas, Philadelphia, (Rutherford's) Harrison , 
Mills Ogden, New York, (Anthony's i Hellevue ave. and 

the Cliffs. 



Neilson Miss Mary N., New York, Cottage. fave. 

Nugent Mrs. George. German town, Penn.. Coggeshall 
Norman Hugh K.. Boston, Lawton'svalley. 
Neilson Mrs. Belle, New York, (Swinburne's) Green- 
ough Place. [Beach. 

Norman, George H., Boston, Greenough Place and 
Newcombe H. victor, New York, (Morton's) Bellevue 
ave. 
Newlin Professor, Philadelphia, Conanicut Island. 
Osgood William H., New York, (Delham's), Bellevue 
ave. 
O'Brien John, New York. Bellevue ave. 
Ogden the Misses. New York. Red Cross ave. 
O'Donnell Mrs.. Baltimore, Ochre Point. 
Ogden Mrs. J. D., New York, Red Cross ave. 
Oothout William. New York, (Burns') Hazard ave. 
Oelnchs Charles M.. New York. (Havemeyer's), Kay st. 
Osgood Mrs George A., New York, No. 1 Pinard Cot- 
tage, Narragansett ave. [Island. 
Patterson Gen. Robert E., Philadelphia, Conanicut 
Powell Dr. S. C. New Haven, Beach st. 
Pinard Mrs. J. B . New York, AnnandaleRoad. 
Post Mrs. L. F., New York, Bellevue ave. 
Pierson J. Fred, New York, Bellevue ave. 
Paul J. W.. Philadelphia, < Maitland's), Third st. 
Post Mrs. N. A. V., New York, (Hall's), Bellevue ave. 
Pond Anson P., New York, Rhode Island ave. 
Pryor S. Morris. New York, (Goodridge's), Pelhani st. 
Pearson Frederick, New York, (Sands'), Ocean ave. and 
Ledge Road. 
Parrish Edward, New York. (Robinson's), Catherine st. 
Potter Frank H., New York. (Willett's). Catherine st. 
Perry Mrs C. G., Philadelphia. Greenough Place. 
Philbrick Edward S.. Boston. Coddington Point. 
Phinney Theo. W.. Chicago, Carroll ave. 
Pratt. Samuel F., Boston. Bellevue ave. 
Pell John B.. Brooklyn, Purgatory Road. [ave. 
Porter Frank B., New York, (Leiber's), Rhode Island 
Pratt H. Ruthven, New York, Bellevue ave. 
Potter Edward T., New York. Catherine st. 
Potter Bishop H. C, New York, Rhode Island ave. 
Parkman Geortre F., Boston, Bellevue ave. 
Pond Mrs. Harriet N., New York, (Lieber's), Rhode 
Island ave. 
Porter Admiral D. D., U. S. Navy. Conanicut Island. 
Perkins Capt. C. H. U. S Navy. Bellevue ave. 
Prince Col. W. E., V. S. Army, Beach View ave. 
Pratt Albert J., Boston, Greenough Place. [ave 
Patterson Miss Laura, Baltimore. (Best's), Bellevue 
Peckham W. M.. New York. (Honey's), Gibbs ave. 
Powel Samuel, Philadelphia. (Eustis'i. Gibbs ave. 
Pattison E. J., New York, (Malcnm's) Kay st. 
Post Miss Laura, of New York, (Baker's) Cranston ave. 
Rogers Fairman. Philadelphia, Ochre Point,. 
Rice Henry A.. Boston, Washington st. 
Rives William C. Boston, Red Cross ave. 
Rhinelander Frederick W., New York, Redwood st. 
Richards W. T., Germantown.Penn.. Conanicut Island. 
Riggs Mrs. Elisha, New York (King Wetmore's) Parker 
ave. 

Rosengarten G. D., Philadelphia, (Mason's), Rhode 
Island ave. [Point. 

Rhinelander Miss Julia, New York. (Lewis'), Ochre 
Riggs Karrick, New York, (Burns'). Hazard ave. 
Reed J. Van D.. New York, (Howard's). Kay st. 
Rosengarten J. G., Philadelphia, (Mason's), Rhode 
Island ave. 
Robinson Dr. Beverly, New York, (Carey's), Bath road 
Schroeder Lieut. Beaton, U. S. Navy (Greene's), Con- 
anicut Island. 
Swan J. A., Columbus, 0. (DeBlois'), Gibbs ave. 
Spencer J. Thompson, Philadelphia (O'Donnell's), 
Ochre Point. 

Sinnickson Charles P., Philadelphia (Terry's), Gibb's 
a^e. 

Strowbridge Mrs. J. C, Philadelphia (Anthony's), 
Conanicut Island. 

Schermerhorn W. C, New York, No. 2 Pinard Cottage, 
Narragansett ave, 

Stetson George W., New York (Woolsey's), Rhode 
Island ave. 
Stone Mrs. Joseph F., New York. Bellevue ave. 
Smith Henry J., Providence. Bellevue court. 
Stevens Mrs. Paran, New York, Bellevue ave. and 
.(ones Court. 
Smith Benjamin R., Philadelphia, Washington. 
Schermerhorn Edward H., New York, Narrangan- 
sett ave. 
Smyth Frank, Philadelphia, One Mile Corner. 
Steele Theodore, New York, The Point. 
Shoemaker Benjamin H., Philadelphia, Conanicut 
Island. 



Schott Mrs Fllen L., New York, Cranston ave. 
Stanard Mrs Martha, Virginia, Bull Street. 
Skinner Francis L., Red Cross ave. 
Sands Mrs. A. L., New York, Catherine St. and 
Greenough Place. 
Sands F. P.. New York, Catherine Street. 
Suydam Henry, New York. Clav Street. 
SatterleeDr. F. Le Roy, New York, Clay. 
Selfridge Capt. T. O., U. S. Navy, Conanicut Island 



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Steele Charles, New York, Cliff ave. 

Shaw Mrs. E. M., Boston, Harrison ave. 

Steward Mrs. Lispenard, New York, (King's), Bellevue 
ave. 

Sigourney Henry, New York (DeBlois'), Cranston ave. 

Stockton Mrs. Bayard, Princeton, N. J.. (Rutherford's) 
Harrison ave. [and Bellevue Court. 

Swan Donnell, Baltimore (Stockton's), Bellevue ave. 

Spencer Lorillard, New York (Sargent's), Rhode 
Island ave, [cut Island. 

Strowbridge C. C, Philadelphia (Hammett's). Conani- 

Slater Mrs. J. W., Providence (Rhua Cottage), Bellevue 

Tailer Edward N., New York (Gen. VanAlen's), Ochre 
Point. 

Tooker G. Mead, New York, Kay and Touro. 

Thorn Mrs. W. K.. New York, Narragansett ave. 

Tuckerman Joseph, New York, Mill. 

Turnbull Mrs. Grace, New York, Kay. [Island. 

Turnbull Dr. Lawrence, Philadelphia, Conanicut 

Taylor Henry A. C, New York, Annandale Road. 

Terry Rev. Roderick. New York, ( Ford's >, Halidon Hill. 

Tyler George F„ Philadelphia Bellevue Court. 

Taggart Philip S.. New York, Broadway. 

Tennant Mrs. D. B„ Petersburg, Va., Bellevue ave. 

Thomas Rev. Dr. Jesse B., Brooklyn, Conanicut Island. 

Tysen Robert P., New York (Tiflany's), Narragansett 
ave. [wood. 

Tuckerman Dr. Samuel P., Boston i Tompkins'), Red- 

Tuckerman Dr. Alfred, New York (Crate's), Ayrault. 

Thomas Addison, New York (Honey's), Francis st. and 
Everett Place. 

Thomas Renald, New York. (Derby's), Kay. 

Townsend James B„ New York, Bellevue ave. 

Thorn W. K., New York, Narragansett ave. 

VanAleu James J.. New York. Ochre Point. 

Vanderbilt Cornelius, New York, Ochre Point. 

Vanderbilt Fred \V„ New York, Bellevue ave. and the 
Cliffs. [ave. 

Van Rensselaer Mrs. Alex., New York. Beach View 

Vernon Mrs. J. P., Providence, Everett Place. [ave. 

Vanderbilt William K., New York < Nortou"s) Bellevue 

Waterbury James M., New York, (Stevens'), Bellevue 
ave. 



Woodworth Mrs. A. P., New York, Merton Road. 
White JohnS., New York (Wheeler's), Channing ave. 

and Bath Road. [ston Cottage, on the Chfls. 

Whitney Mrs. Charles L., New Orleans, No. 2 Living- 
Whitney George 0., New Orleans, (Livingston's), Sea 

View ave. „._.»•» t av e J 

Whitney Charles, Boston. (Traver's). Rhode Island 
Wheeler Miss E. B., Philadelphia, (Kendall's), V ashiug- 

Wright Mrs. H. A., New York, Rhode Island ave. 
Whitridge John O. Baltimore, Sandy Point. 
Winans Ross R.. Baltimore, Ocean ave. 
Wales George \V\, Boston, Yznaga ave. and the Clins. 
Wilson Richard T., New York, Narragansett ave. 
Wharton Job, Philadelphia, Conanicut Island. 
Wharton Mrs. Charles W„ Philadelphia, Conanicut 
Island. „ , 

Wharton Joseph, Philadelphia, Conanicut Island. 
Wheeler J. C, Philadelphia, Washington. 
Witherbee Silas H., New York, Honeyman Hill. 
Whitwell Miss, Boston, Berkeley ave. 
Whitwell S. Horatio, Boston, Berkeley ave. 
Warren Mrs. Gen. G. K. (Griswold's), Channing ave. 
Wheeler C. G.. Philadelphia, Washington. 
Weld Mrs. William F., Philadelphia, Narragansett ave. 
Weld William G., Boston, Bellevue ave. 
Weld George W., Boston, Narragansett ave. 
Warren G. Henry, New York. Narragansett ave. 
Wheeler Mrs. Charles. Philadelphia, Channing ave. 
Winthrop E. L., New York, Bellevue ave. 
Whiting Mrs. Sarah S., New York, Bellevue ave. 
Whiting Augustus L., New York, Bellevue ave. and 

Willoughby Hugh L., Saratoga Springs. Halidon ave. 
Watson Dr. W. A.. New York, Spriugand John. 
Wilson Prof. Jas. Hazard. New York, Coddington Point. 
Welles W. S., New York, Bellevue and Ruggles ave. 
Wharton Mrs. Edward, New York, Harrison ave. 
Willard E. W., Chicago, Miantonomi ave. 
Wetmore Samuel, New York. Bellevue ave. 
Wysong John J., New Y'ork. Ochre Point. 
Wilson M. Orme. New York (Carey's), Narragansett ave. 
Zabriskie Andrew C, New York, (Arnold's), Rnode 
Island ave. 



HIGH TIDE AT NEWPORT.-Eastern Standard Time. 

4S=-This table will also show the time of the tide at other places on Narragansett Bay and adjacent 
points, by means of the following- easy calculations : 



For Providence, . 


add 30 


" Bristol and Warren, . 


'• 20 


" Fall River, . . 


" 25 


" East Greenwich, . 


" 18 


" Nayatt Point, 


" or. 


" Bullock's Point, . 


" 10 



minutes. For Wickford, 



Beaver Tail, 
Nai mgansett Pier, • 
Point Judith, 
Block Island, 



add 12 minutes. 
00 



subtract 10 
12 
11 



"^5 


JULY. 


AUGUST. 


SEPTEMBER. 


o3 

S3 

17 


JULY. 


AUGUST. 


SEPTEMBER. 




A. M. 


P. M. 


A. M. 


P. M. 


A. M. 


P. M. 


A. M. 


P.M. 


A. M. 


P. M. 


A. M. 


P. M. 


i 


2.00 


228 


3.22 


313 


4.18 


4.12 


3.34 


2.52 


4.:i» 


4.20 


5.37 


5.50 


2 


3.00 


3.12 


4.10 


3.56 


4.52 


4.55 


18 


3.35 


3.44 


5.09 


5.12 


6 21 


6.39 


3 


3.55 


3.52 


4 50 


4.36 


534 


5.42 


19 


4.32 


4.35 


5.58 


6.02 


7.02 


7.24 


4 


4.42 


4.29 


5.28 


5.15 


6.12 


626 


20 


5.36 


5.36 


6.44 


6.50 


7.40 


8.07 


5 


522 


5.05 


6.03 


5.56 


6.50 


7.09 


21 


6.16 


6.14 


7.30 


7.38 


8.08 


8.49 


fi 


6.00 


5.40 


6.40 


6.38 


7.32 


7.56 


:>?, 


7.05 


7.02 


8.12 


8.24 


8.54 


9.32 


7 


6.34 


6.17 


7.17 


7.20 


8.16 


8.43 


23 


7.52 


7.50 


8.55 


9.10 


9.31 


10.16 


8 


7.09 


7.00 


7.58 


8.06 


9.03 


9.35 


9A 


b.40 


8.49 


9.38 


9.58 


10.10 


11.08 


9 


7.45 


7.33 


8.43 


8.45 


9.54 


10.34 


25 


9.28 


9.30 


1022 


10.48 


10.56 


11.45 


10 


8.26 


8.18 


9.32 


9.49 


10.52 


11.38 


26 


10.18 


10.22 


11.07 


11.44 


0.04 


11.48 


11 


9.11 


9.08 


10.26 


10.50 


11.52 


11.45 


27 


1108 


11.20 


11.56 


11.45 


1.07 


12.48 


12 


10.02 


10.04 


11.24 


11.45 


0.47 


12.57 


28 


Noon 


11.45 


0.44 


12.46 


2.08 


1.58 


13 


11.01 


11.08 


mdn 


1224 


1.56 


2.03 


29 


020 


12 51 


1.48 


1.40 


2.59 


2.54 


14 


Noon 


1145 


104 


1.26 


3.00 


3.06 


30 


1.24 


1.40 


2.46 


2.34 


3.44 


3.49 


15 


0.17 


12.58 


2.14 


2 27 


4.00 


404 


31 


2.26 


2.28 


3.36 


3.26 






16 


1.27 


1.55 


3.18 


3.24 


4.50 


5.00 

















FOR MARTHA'S VINEYARD, NANTUCKET AND NEW BEDFORD. 

f~ Add to the time of the above table as follows for the places named : 



H. M. 



H M. 

4 42 

3 47 

00 



New Bedford, Clark's Point, . . . 31 I Brant Point Nantucket, . . 

Edgartown and Cottage City. M. V., . 4 30 SMSConset, Nantucket, 

Vineyard Haven and West Chop, M. V., . 4 00 J Muskeget Channel, west end Nantucket, 

Note. — For all places given, the nearest tidal station is Newport, R. I. 

Example.— Suppose you wanted to find the time of high tide September 13, at Cottage City, Martha's 
Vineyard. Looking in the table you learn the tide is full at Newport on that date at 47 minutes afte>- 
midnightand again at 57 minutes after noon, or 12.57 p. m. Add to either the ratio given for Cottage 
City, and the result will be. for the first, 5.17 a. m., and for the other, 5.27 p. m. 



Part Fourth 



CHAPTER I 



WESTERLY NARRAGANSETT PIER: ITS PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS, HOTELS, COTTAGES, 

AND FASHIONABLE LIFE SOUTH FERRY AND SAUNDERSTOWN PEACE DALE 

WATCH HILL NOYE'S BEACH. 



WESTERLY. 

The township of 
Westerly forms the 
southwest corner to the 
State of Rhode Island, 
but the name is also 
applied more partic- 
ularly to the busy manu- 
facturing village on the 
east bank of the Paw- 
catuck River, five miles 
from its mouth and 
navigable to this point. 
The river forms here 
the boundary between 
Rhode Island and Con- 
necticut, and directly 
across on the west 
bank is the village of 
Pawcatuck in the town- 
ship of Stonington, 
Conn., but which in 
common parlance is 
included in Westerly. 
From the river the land 
rises on either side to 
quite high elevations 
between one and two 
hundred feet in height, but the slopes are gradual, and the villages are situated 
along the river banks and extend back up the hillsides. Westerly, as thus con- 
stituted, is the largest and most populous place in southern Rhode Island. In 




BROAD STREET, WESTERLY, DIXON HOUSE ON THE RIGHT. 



WESTERLY. 



163 



its borders much manu- 
facturing is carried on, 
and it is the centre for 
the surrounding regions, 
in which there area num- 
ber of small manufact- 
uring villages. The 
business in the compact 
portion extends for half 
a mile along the liver on 
both banks, and on the 
streets running up and 
along the hillsides are 
the churches, schools, 
and residences, the whole 
forming a pleasant town, 
which, from its situation, 
has a good drainage, and 
being near the sea, while 
it is protected by high 
land to the north and 
east, has a salubrious 
climate. 

On the Rhode Island 
side, leading from the 
railroad station, the prin- 
cipal streets follow the 
east bank of the river. 
A walk down High, 
across Dixon House 
Square, down Main, up 
Cross, and back through 
Elm and Broad to the 
Square will afford an ex- 
cellent idea of the town. 
The Square and its 
neighborhood is the cen- 
tral place for business ; 
it is about a quarter of a 
mile from the station and 
fronting on it is the 
Dixon House, a mam- 
moth four-story brick 
hotel, while next east is 

the First Baptist Church. Immediately westward the Broad Street bridge spans 
the river, connecting Pawcatuck with Westerly, and to the south Main Street 
runs out of it. On the river bank, corner of Broad and Main, are the woolen 




1 64 PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 

mills of the Stillman Manufacturing Company, which have been idle during 
the past winter. The third mill from the corner has recently been purchased 
by the Atwood Manufacturing Company, of Stonington, and will be started as 
a silk mill. Further down the street, on the river side, are lumber yards, coal 
depots, etc., with coasting vessels lying along side, while on the landward side 
of the street in succession are the Opera House, Armory Hall, and the fine 
Seventh Day Baptist Church. Across the river a little above here are the cotton 
mills of the Moss Manufacturing Company, and the extensive printing-press 
works of C. B. Cottrell & Sons, adjoining each other on the west bank, and 
from here can also be seen the main portion of Pawcatuck. 

Turning to the left up Cross Street, Elm Street is soon reached, which runs 
parallel with Main but further up the slope of the hill. It is bordered in its whole 
extent with substantial and some elegant mansion houses, lined with fine rows of 
trees, and constitutes a very beautiful neighborhood. At the corner of Elm and 
School streets is the High School, and just beyond on the west side is the Calvary 
Baptist Church. Proceeding northward we soon reach the junction of Elm, 
Broad, and Granite streets. Facing Broad Street is the Christian Church. A 
few steps down Broad, running through to Main, is Union Street, on which is 
the Town Hall, a fine brick building with a tower and clock, and near it is 
the engine station of the Westerly fire district, containing two good steamers, 
while further down, near Main, is the Episcopal Church. 

Westerly is famous for its granite. Half a mile up the hill, by way of 
Granite Street, the summit of the ridge is reached, and here are the extensive 
quarries and yards of the Smith Granite and Rhode Island Granite Companies. 
The quarries are immense, wide, and deep holes in the ground out of which 
already many thousand tons of stone have been taken, and the work still goes 
on. Here there are three quarries. Extending in rows around them on all 
sides but the east are the sheds in which the stone is dressed, or cut into figures, 
statuary, and all sorts of monuments, and it is a sight worth seeing to go through 
these buildings, especially the ones where life-like figures are being cut from the 
dead blocks of granite, as an inspection of the models will afford more pleasure 
than can be had in visiting most art museums. To the northward, along Granite 
road about a mile further, are other extensive quarries operated by the Chap- 
man Granite Company and other firms, and at Niantic, five miles from the vil- 
lage but within the limits of the town, are other quarries. 

Half a mile north from the railroad depot, but in a component part of the 
village of Westerly is the locality known as Stillmanville, where are the facto- 
ries and tenements of the Westerly Woolen Company. Two of the mills of 
this concern are on the Rhode Island side and one on the Connecticut side, 
and they are all built on the river bank. A highway bridge crosses the river 
just above the mills. 

There are a number of factory villages within the limits of the town. Two 
miles north of Westerly is the cotton mill and village known as White Rock, 
belonging to B. B. & R. Knight. Three and a half miles from the station is 
Potter Hill, where are situated the woolen mills of J. P. Campbell & Company. 
At Niantic, five miles distant, the Carmichael Manufacturing Company have a 



WESTERLY. 



165 




THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, WESTERLY. 



mill, and the same 
company also have 
a small establish- 
ment just across 
the Broad Street 
bridge in Pawca- 
tuck. 

Although there 
are more sepai'ate 
factories engaged 
in the woolen 
manufacture ac- 
cording to the last 
census, the num- 
ber of persons en- 
gaged in the cot- 
ton and woolen 

business was in each a little over three hundred. The most important industry 
in the town is the granite business, employing over four hundred men, a large 
majority of them skilled workmen. During the winter of 1887-8, the woolen 
business has been very dull ; the factories in Westerly and Niantic were stopped 
all winter, those at Stillmanville, the Westerly Woolen Company, were idle 
several months, but started in spring. During the same time the cotton mills 
at White Rock, the Moss Manufacturing Company's Mill across the river, and 

Cottrell & Sons' press works 
have been running full. Dur- 
ing the winter the granite 
works are usually quite slack. 
Westerly is the stronghold 
of the Seven-day Baptists, 
and their presence brings 
about the curious condition 
of affairs that a portion of the 
people hold their day of wor- 
ship and rest on Saturday. 
Some of the stores are closed 
on Saturday, and services are 
held in the churches of the 
denomination, while on Sun- 
day these stores are opened, 
and the Seven-day people go 
about their usual occupa- 
tions. They were formerly 
much more numerous than 
at present, and several of the 
seventh-day baptist church, westerly. factories conformed to the 




1 66 PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 

system, but now the only concern that does so is the works of C. B. Cottrell & 
Sons. 

On February n, 1S71 , the Westerly Fire District was organized under a 
charter from the General Assembly, practically forming the inhabitants of the 
village of Westerly into a separate town for the purpose of providing and main- 
taining means to put out fires, and all taxable voters were made members thereof. 
The district now has two fire engines. 

A system of water-works was started by a private corporation, November, 
1SS6, and is now in successful working order. On the hill near the quarries is 
a large boiler iron stand pipe about seventy feet in height, which gives a head 
of water sufficient for any portion of the place. 

From Granite Hill on the Rhode Island side, or from Hinckley Hill across 
the river in Connecticut, the whole village can be viewed to rare advantage. To 
the south, Block Island, Long Island, Fisher's Island, Watch Hill and its 
hotels, Stonington, Little Narragansett Bay and the narrow strip of land in- 
closing it, can all be very clearly distinguished, while glimpses of the Pawcatuck 
at various points for eight or ten miles of its course can be had. 

In the limits of the town and of Pawcatuck there are fourteen churches : 
three Seven Day Baptists, one Seven Day Advent, two each of Roman Catholic 
and Baptist, and one each of Methodist, Congregational, Christian, Friends, 
Episcopal, and Advent. Of these nine are in the village of Westerly. 

The main line of the New York, Providence and Boston Railroad runs 
through Westerly, the station being on the Rhode Island side, forty-four miles 
from Providence. Stages run daily to Hopkinton City, Ashaway, Potter's Hill 
Clark's Falls, and White Rock, affording good opportunity to see the country ; 
trips are also made to Voluntown and Wakefield, the route to the latter place 
through a sparsely settled country, on a mail stage. During the summer 
steamers run from Westerly to Watch Hill, six miles distant down the river. 

The population of the entire town of Westerly by the census of 1885, was- 
6,333. It is quite safe to say that Westerly proper with Pawcatuck has a 
population of at least five thousand. 

NARRAGANSETT PIER. 

Imagine, if you can, a rugged, rocky sea coast, on which the waves are 
constantly beating with a force that cannot be appreciated unless seen, and can- 
not then be estimated; imagine further a less wild adjoining portion, formed, 
not of rock, but of sand, which the waves approach with a force similar and 
equal to their assaults on the rocky ramparts, but finding less resistance melt and 
merge away in long graceful rollers, chasing each other up and down the smooth 
and level sands ; between these picture a region of chaos, neither wholly rock 
nor sand, but a confused jumble of both, the connecting link between the rock 
and sand shore. When you have succeeded in forming such a picture in your 
mind you will then have an idea of the physical features of Narraganset Pier, 
but unless you are familiar with the ocean in its varying moods, your imagina- 
tion will but faintly picture the ever-changing form of the crested waves as they 



16S PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 

roll in on the sands, the dashing and breaking, and thundering of the surf on 
the rocks, and the manifold forms of the ever-troubled waters, always different 
in appearance with every successive changing aspect of the sky, the atmosphere, 
or the sunlight, reflecting on its broad but fretful surface glints and rays of all 
the changes in the wonderful and beautiful firmament above. 

That such a locality should attract the lovers of the beautiful in nature is 
not to be wondered at ; that it should become a summer resort of wealth and 
fashion was inevitable ; for, while the coast has all these charms, the country 
is beautiful, with broad meadows, hills, ponds, streams of water, villages and 
farms, and it has many pleasing historical associations, in fact, surpassing any 
other partof the state in this regard. Here in colonial times, resided great 
landed proprietors, who kept up, with their numerous slaves, a sort of feudal 
magnificence and princely hospitality ; here the celebrated breed of horses, the 
Narragansett pacers, had their home ; here in the kindly and primitive fashion 
of the age, the slaves imitated their masters in holding elections, as narrated in 
some of the old books, which so garrulously set forth all these particulars. 
And the aroma of this kindly olden life still clings to the hills and valleys of the 
country, and can be enjoyed by the visitor either on the spot by association or 
through the literature which deals with the South County, both directly and in- 
directly. 

Narragansett Pier is on the eastern coast of the town of North Kingstown, 
R. I., near the western entrance to Narragansett Bay, about ten miles south- 
west from Newport, and four or five miles north of that dread of mariners, 
Point Judith. It is thus exposed to the full, uninterrupted sweep of the ocean 
on the east from the Pier to the Point. While there are indentations in 
the shore, no harbor is possible, as on the calmest day the long ocean swell is 
on the water and the waves dash strongly against every rock and beach, and enter 
into every bay with undiminished force. In fact, it is from this circumstance 
that the Pier takes its name. As the inhabitants found it desirable to have 
water communication with the outside world, in the least exposed portion of the 
coast, about the year 17S0, a pier was built by John Robinson, and as all back 
of it was the Narragansett County, of course the pier soon came to be known as 
the Narragansett Pier. The sea has battered down many of the piers that were 
built since that time, and their ruins can be seen on the shore between the beach 
and the South Pier, the only one remaining, where are two wharves inclosing a 
dock, which serves the purpose of a harbor, and will accommodate several ves- 
sels. On the largest and most southerly of these wharves, is a large coal and 
grain elevator, where nearly all the coal and building material used in the town 
is received and handled. 

The fashionable resort may be said now to consist of two portions. Several 
years ago the statement was true that it was a settlement of great hotels. To- 
day, while the hotels are still here, and have increased in number, " cottages" 
similar to those at Newport have become proportionately more numerous, and 
to the south of the original section, within the past few years, on situations over- 
looking the rocks, is a group of elegant and expensive residences. 

The main portion of Narragansett Pier extends along the shore from the 



NARRAGANSETT PIER. 



169 






; 




BATHING SCENE. 



bathing beach on the north 
to the South Pier, a distance 
perhaps of an eighth of a 
mile, and consists of about 
a score of large hotels, and 
perhaps a little more than 
double that number of cot- 
tages, two churches, a 
chapel, the post-office, a 
few stores, and last, but not 
least, the Casino. 

A few cottages and eight 
of the hotels, with wide 
lawns in front, face the 

ocean, from which they are separated by a fine macadamized street. At the 
northward end of this row is the Casino, an elegant stone structure, a portion of 
which is thrown across the ocean avenue, in a fine arch ; extensive grounds and 
buildings run from the avenue westward along Beach Place, and the whole affords 
opportunity for entertainments and for social intercourse for the wealthy sojourn- 
ers. From Beach or Exchange Place, a short street on which the Casino 
borders, all roads diverge : here are all the summer stores and offices ; here you 
start for any one of the beautiful drives to be had in the vicinity. Across Ex- 
change Place from the Casino is the Rockingham, until this season known as the 
McSparran House, to which a large addition was built the past spring. The 
beach begins just beyond this hotel to the north, and a lane leads down to it past 
the house. Leading out of Beach Place southward and passing through 
Mathewson, Central, and back through Caswell streets to the starting point, a 
circuit of not more than half a mile, we pass the rest of the hotels and cottages 
in the main portion of the Pier. On Boon Street, leading out of Central, and 
the street that runs from the railroad station, is the Presbyterian Church, and a 
little further on Central Street is the Episcopal Church, both tasteful edifices. 

On a side street is a small 
Roman Catholic Chapel. 
The chief attraction at 
the Pier is the bathing 
beach, which is situated 
just north of the hotels 
and extends about a mile 
in a crescent-shaped curve 
until it reaches the mouth 
of the Pettaquamscutt 
River. It is gently in- 
clined, is as level as ;i 
floor, and so packed down 
by the beating of the 
waves as to be extremelv 

METATOXET HOUSE, JOHN H. CASWELL, PROPRIETOR. Smooth and hard. No 

12 




i;o PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 

life-lines are necessary, as there is no undertow, and in comparison to the 
strength of the surf the beach is very safe. Only a small section of it is used 
— the southern end of the curve, — and opposite this space are commodious 
bathing-houses, belonging to the various hotels and to private parties, all form- 
ing a continuous range of buildings along which in front runs a broad covered 
promenade connecting them together, and at the same time affording oppor- 
tunity for spectators. On the second story of many of these houses are balco- 
nies from which spectators may view the scene below without being troubled 
by the passing of the dripping bathers. Between the promenade and the edge 
of the water, rows of tents are pitched, and these shelters from the sun are 
favorite places for the on-lookers. The fashionable hours are at midday, when 
the scene here presented surpasses in the multitude and character of the bathers 
that at any other resort in New England. Sometimes as many as a thousand 
persons are tumbling in the surf, the waves come in rapidly, the bathers are 
dashed and buffeted about, and when an extra strong breaker overwhelms the 
throng the scene is a gay one, the sudden and forcible concussions that follow 
are taken as a matter of course, so that here in the water democracy prevails ; 
and a plebeian may not only rub elbows with a prince, but he may perforce be 
obliged to embrace a princess. 

Just north of the bathing-beach a United States Life-Saving Station has 
been located for years, but the past spring a picturesque stone building was. 
erected on the shore just soutn of the Casino, and at the head of one of the 
ruined piers. 

At the other end of the seaward row of hotels are the two wharves, and in 
the neighborhood is a lumber yard, the terminal buildings of the Narragansett 
Pier Railroad, a kiln for steam-drying lumber, and a large grocery store. The 
railroad station was formerly located here, but it has been moved a short distance 
up the track the better to accommodate the whole place. The magnificent 
rocky shore already mentioned begins a short distance south of the landing, and 
continues all the way to Point Judith, five miles distant. A path leads along the 
upper edge of these rocks which, in general, shelve down into the water; but 
there are many that project boldly into the sea, and not a few rise in steep cliffs, 
bidding defiance to the waves. 

Leading out of Ocean Avenue at the landing is the road to Point Judith, 
built in 1SS2, which follows the coast all the way. Since its opening many cot- 
tages, similar to the Newport villas, have been built between it and the cliffs. 
To the west of the road on the first rise of land after leaving the landing, is. 
Earlscourt, on which are four elegant residences. In the foreground at the head 
of a straight avenue leading from the highway and in front of these residences, 
is a water-tower of very unique appearance. On its front is the figure of a 
griffin, with large, outspread wings laid back against the wooden superstructure, 
and its immense tail coiled around the supporting pillar, looking as one might 
imagine some of the fabled monsters of antiquity appeared, or a semblance like 
the frequently seen sea-serpent. The tower, however, is eminently practical in 
its purpose. In the upper part is a tank into which water is pumped from a. 
well just outside the tower by a small engine in the bottom of the structure, and. 



xarra<;a\sett pier. 



171 




&4Wf<%^J 



~^«£. 



'~.-y 



d^*\ 



THE MATHEWSON— S. W. MATHEWSON, PROPRIETOR. 



the cottages are 
supplied from 
the tank. Vis- 
itors can ascend 
by a spiral stair- 
case to the top 
of the tower 
fro m where a 
fine view can be 
obtained of the 
s u r roundi n g 
country. 

Beyond Earls- 
court the road 
leads past what 
is now par ex- 
cellence the cottage region of the Pier. For half or three-quarters of a mile 
are a score or more of villas, all but one or two between the highway and the 
sea. The finest of the group is " Dunmere," the property of R. G. Dun, Esq., 
of New York. It is the most southerly but one of this group, and is a magnifi- 
cent residence with surroundings almost fairly-like in their beauty. Overlooking 
this group of residences on the western side of the road is the Hazard estate, a 
well wooded tract, the highest land along the shore in the neighborhood. About 
the centre of the grounds is Hazard Castle, a feudal looking stone tower, visible 
from all the country round as it looms above the trees. At its base is a low, 
rambling stone house built in many sections. The tower was for many years 
an element of mystery, but the riddle was solved in 1SS3, when the property 
was sold by its original owner, Joseph Peace Hazard, to his nephew Rowland 
N. Hazard, of New York, for a small sum on condition that the original plan 
lie carried out. The tower is 105 feet high, 160 feet above the level of the sea, 
25 feet square at the base, and 20 feet at the top, with walls from 3 to 4 feet 
thick, and is divided into seven stories. In the third story is a tablet inserted 
in the east wall with the following inscription : 



THIS TOWER, ERECTED TO MEMORY OF HIS 

ANCESTORS, WAS FOUNDED A. D. 1S46, 

COMPLETED 1884, 

BY JOSEPH PEACE HAZARD, 

SON OF ROWLAND AND MARY HAZARD 

BORN 1S07 DIED iS 



If you are fortunate enough to gain access to it the view from the top of the 
tower is the most magnificent in the state. The south shores of Newport and 
Conanicut Island, Beaver Tail and "Whale Rock Light-houses, the main passage 
and the western entrance to Narragansett Bay all lie to the northeast. Before 
vou to the east and south is the wide ocean, from Seaconnet Point to Block 
Island, the horizon describing an arc of ninety degrees. To the south is Point 



172 



PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 




THE GLADSTONE — W. A. NYE, PROPRIETOR. 



Judith, clearly defined, and running out into the water like a finger, while further 
away across the intervening water, the bulk of Block Island rises ou,t of the sea 
in clear, sharp outline. At your feet is the entire rocky coast with the group 
of cottages along the Ocean road, and north, half a mile away, is the main 
portion of the Pier, so distinct that you can pick out nearly every building. To 
the south, beyond Point Judith, is a large extent of the southern coast of the 
state, flanked by numerous ponds glistening in the sun ; to the northwest the 
villages of Wakefield and Peacedale are clearly discerned, while all around on 
the west and north are ranges of low hills shutting out the view. 

A drive along the River road northward leads through a charming and pic- 
turesque country. Just after leaving the Pier you pass Canonchet, the splendid 
mansion of the Spragues, now the property of Mrs. William Sprague, and the 
residence of the ex-governor and his family. At Hammond Mills, seven miles 
up this road, is the birthplace of Gilbert Stuart, the celebrated artist. 

The hotels at the Pier are : On Ocean Avenue — Narragansett, Mathew- 
son, Atwood, Revere, Continental, Mount Hope, Greene's Inn; Mathewson 
Street — Delavan, Massasoit ; Central Street — Columbus ; Ocean Street — Ocean 
House; Caswell Street — Metatoxet, Sea View, Gladstone; Beach Place — 
Rockingham; Tower Hill — Tower Hill House. 

In May, 1887, the Rhode Island 
General Assembly constituted Narra- 
gansett Pier and vicinity into a dis- 
trict, by the name of Narragansett, 
with all the powers of a town in re- 
gard to its local self government, but 
gave it no representation in the legis- 
lature. The district has also been 
empowered by act of the legislature 
to borrow $150,000 to be expended for 
highways, sewerage and the erection 
the casino. °f public buildings, and. as provided. 




NARRAGANSETT PIER. 




ATWOOD nOUSE — J. A TUCKER PROPRIETOR. 



this act received the con- 
firmation ot the taxpayers 
in June, 1SS8. The mem- 
bers of the District Coun- 
cil are : Ex-Governor and 
Senator William Sprague, 
the owner of Canonchet 
and over 400 acres of land : 
Mr. S. W. Mathewson, of 
the Mathewson House ; 
Mr. F. P. W. Teflt, of the 
Revere House ; Mr. Geo. 
G. Pearce, a farmer on 
Point Judith, and Mr- 
Joseph G. Johnston, for- 
merly of Providence, and 
now a large farm owner at Boston Xeck. 

An electric light plant has been erected, and already more than 1,200 
lights are in use. A project is on foot for the construction of water works to 
supply not only Narragansett Pier, but also the neighboring villages of Wake- 
field and Peace Dale. The company has been already organized, is known as 
the Wakefield Water Company, and has a capital of $150,000. Thirteen 
miles of pipe will be required, and a standpipe on an adjoining high hill will 
secure a fall of two hundred feet. This will insure a plentiful supply of water 
and ample provision in case of fire, and will also be of great value as an auxil- 
iary in any future system of sewerage adopted. 

The Pier is reached by the Narragansett Pier Railroad, which connects 
with the main line of the New York, Providence & Boston Railroad at Kings- 
ton. During the summer a small but staunch propeller plies between the Pier 
and Newport, but unless you are a good sailor you had better not attempt the 
passage, as the tossing you will experience in coming or going through the long 
ocean swell breaking on the coast will be sure to make you seasick. 

The new ferry running between the Kingston shore and the west side of 

Conanicut Island which was started this 
season and runs in connection with the 
Jamestown Ferry, affords splendid oppor- 
tunity for a drive from Narragansett to 
Newport and return, through charming 
scenery both on shore and afloat. The 
ferry boats, of course, are so arranged 
that carriages can very conveniently be 
I driven onto them. The distance is about 
j^B^Bjj] five miles by water and si\ or seven miles 
by land. Seven or eight connecting trips 
are made each week-day both ways, and 

REVERE HOUSE, J 

f w. p Tefft Leisee. on Sunday there are three such trips. 




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PICTURESQUE NARRAGAXSETT. 




ATLANTIC HOUSE— S. T. BROWNING. PROPRIETOR. 



. Centrally located on Ocean 
Avenue, easy of access from both 
railroad station and the sceamboat 
landing is the Atlantic House, one 
of the largest and finest hotels at 
the Pier. It is in within two min- 
utes' walk of the Casino, and but 
little farther from the beach. The 
house is located far enough back 
from the street to avoid all dust, 
while there is nothing between to 
prevent the full sweep of the ocean 
breezes, and the intervening space 
is taken up by a large open lawn which affords a fine playground for the 
children, as well as ample facilities for tennis courts. Swings and tents for 
the younger guests are provided, and from the broad piazzas, which extend the 
entire length of the house, an excellent ocean view can be gained. The hotel 
has eighty-seven sleeping rooms, giving a capacity for one hundred and fifty 
guests. It is four stories high, and the rooms are large and well arranged for 
comfort. The dining hall is one of the cosiest and coolest at the Pier. Elec- 
tric bells are in every room, and the house is supplied with hot or cold sea 
water baths. Since last year the house has been refurnished in pai't and put in 
complete order. The house has always held the reputation of being a well 
kept family resort, and under its present proprietor, S. T. Browning, is add- 
ing largely to its former excellent reputation. 

On Ocean Avenue, commanding a fine view of the ocean, is the Continen- 
tal Hotel, one of the finest houses at the Pier. It is equipped with all modern 
appliances for safety, convenience and comfort, such as fire escapes, electric 
bells, electric lights, gas, and has the most perfect drainage and sanitary arrange- 
ments ; it is also furnished with fresh and sea water baths, and supplied with 

pure spring water. 
llfe\ Broad piazzas encircle 
■**■ the front and back of the 
house, which is four 
stories inheightandhas 
accommodations for 
200 guests. The rooms 
are large and airy, and 
all command magnifi- 
cent views of land or 
water. The lawns are 
wide and spacious, suit- 
able for summer games 
of lawn tennis, etc., 
while facing directly 
on the sea a delightful 
air always prevails. 




CONTINENTAL HOTEL -A. F SAUNDERS, PROPRIETOR. 



XARRAGANSETT PIER. 




MASSASOIT HOUSE-JOHN BABCOCK, SUPERINTENDENT. 

The Massasoit House is one of the most desirably located hotels at Narra- 
gansett Pier, as it stands on high ground, in the midst of a pleasant, grassy 
lawn, and is within three minutes' walk of the bathing beach, to which a con- 
crete walk leads the entire distance. From its rooms and piazzas excellent 
views of the ocean are obtained, some of its rooms overlook the Casino, while 
from the upper windows, wide stretches of the beautiful Narragansett country 
lie in sight. The house in four stories in height, will accommodate one hun- 
dred and forty guests, has about three hundred feet of piazzas, and is provided 
with wrought iron fire escape, electric bells, and other necessary conveniences. 
The sleeping rooms are large and airy, and the table is provided with the best 
the market affords. Mr. John Babcock, the manager, is president of the 
Wakefield Institution for Savings, which concern owns the house. The guests 
in the past have included notable people, authors, diplomats, military and naval 
officers, legislators, and distinguished foreigners. 



For a quiet, first-class retreat during the summer months, the Ocean House 
has rare advantages. It is within five minutes' walk of the beach, is under the 
management of its proprietor, Mr. George N. Kenyon, who has looked after 
the comfort of his guests for the past seventeen years. The house is large and 
airy, and has every convenience, including electric lights, pure water and the 
best of sanitary facilities, with good drainage. It is not a transient hostelry, 
but is a summer home, and only those accepted as guests whose reputations are 
known. Around the house is a large shady lawn. The table is supplied with 
the best the market affords. 



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PEACE DALE. 

On the Narragansett Pier Railroad, in the town of South Kingstown, is the 
pleasant village of Peace Dale. It has a population of about twelve hundred 
inhabitants, and is distant from the city of Providence thirty miles southwest, 
while it is within sight of the noted shore resort, Narragansett Pier. A stream 
known by the Indian name, Saugatucket (Dead-Man's Brook), flows through 
the village and affords water-power for the factories. The place is best known 
as the location of the Peace Dale Manufacturing Company, and the seat of the 
great woolen manufacturing business of the well-known Hazard family. This 
manufacture was started here by Rowland Hazard about the beginning of the 
present century, and it is claimed that the first power loom successfully oper- 
ated in the world was in his factory in the year 1814 or 1S15, at least two years 
before a similar machine was first started in Judge Lyman's mill in North 
Providence. From 1S20 to 1S64 Isaac P. and Rowland G., the sons of Row- 
land Hazard, carried on and enlarged the business, the manufacture of kerseys 
being their specialty. In 1847 they organized the Peace Dale Manufacturing 
Company, and began the manufacture of shawls. Isaac P. Hazard retired in 
1864, and Rowland G. Hazard in 1866, leaving the business to the manage- 
ment of his sons, Rowland and John N. The present officers are : John N. Haz- 
ard, president ; Rowland Hazard, treasurer ; Rowland G. Hazard, 2d, assistant- 
treasurer ; William Drysdale, superintendent ; John A. Brown, clerk. In 1856 
the works were greatly enlarged, and in 1872 a new mill was added for the 
manufacture of worsted goods. The Hazards have thus for four generations, 
extending over a period of about ninety years, been successful manufacturers in 
the place where the business was first started. 

WATCH HILL. 

Six miles from Westerly at the extreme southwestern point of the state, is 
Watch Hill and Point. The hill is a considerable elevation, composed of abrupt 
sand hills with small valleys between, the whole forming a series of rounded 
eminences, rising quite abruptly from the water, and a point juts out from it in 
a short promontory directly to the south. Beginning from the base of the 
highest hill, a long and narrow strip of land extends directly west for more 
than a mile, and then runs north for about a mile, terminating in Sandy Point, 
and at the elbow the outer point is known as Nappatree, the whole being noth- 
ing more than a low sand bar, shaped as has been often said like a sickle. 
This natural breakwater incloses Little Narragansett Bay, which is an almost 
circular body of water nine miles in circumference, into which the Pawcatuck 
River empties. Three miles distant, near the mouth of the bay, is Stonington. 

On the eastern side of Watch Hill Point the surf comes in with such force 
and there is so much undertow that it is not safe for swimmers, and here there are 
always to be seen a number of wrecks strewn along the sands. On the other 
side of the point, however, and on the south shore of the sandy breakwater, is 
a fine beach, where the water is usually calm and the bathing safe. The 



WATCH HILL. 







fashionable hours are from n A. M. 
to i p. M. 

The hill is literally covered with 
hotels, there being eight on its sides 
and summit, and in the neighbor- 
hood are about two dozen fine cot- 
tages. The development of the 
place as a summer resort began 
about 1S40, when the first Watch 
Hill House was built. In 1S56, the 
Atlantic was erected ; in 1S69 the 
Larkin House was opened ; then 
followed the Plimpton and the % 
Ocean House, and these five are - 
now the largest of the hotels. In 3 
1S70 began an era of cottage build- p 
ing, and since 1SS6 new cottages * 
have been erected every year, the c 
indications being that the future c 
will witness the construction of r 
many additional residences. T 

From the hill or any of the Ti 
hotels, a splendid seaward prospect c 
lies in view, eleven light-houses f 
and one light-ship being in sight. " 
The temperature ranges from sixty- 
six to seventy-five degrees in the sea- 
son, the ocean breezes continually 
sweep over it, the inclosed bay 
affords splendid opportunities for 
sailing or fishing, and the resort is 
easily reached, being but a short 
distance from the great highway of 
travel between New York and Bos- 
ton — the Shore Line route. Dur- 
ing the summer a small steamer runs 
from Stonington connecting with 
Shore Line trains, and the run is only three miles across the bay. From Westerly 
a steamer also comes down the Pawcatuck River, a distance of about six 
miles but affording very charming views of the scenery. The steamer from 
New London' to and from Block Island stops at Watch Hill both going and 
returning, and a smaller steamer also makes regular trips from the same place. 
On the extremity of the point is a light-house, and on its southern side is a United 
States Life Saving Station. 

The names of the hotels at Watch Hill are the Ocean, Plimpton, Larkin, 
Atlantic, Watch Hill, Narragansett, Bay View, and Dickens. 







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The Plimpton House and its two annexes, the Bay View and the Dickens 
houses, constitute the largest establishment under one management at Watch 
Hill. In the three fine structures there are two hundred and fifty rooms, affording 
accommodation, of course, if necessary, for a much larger number of persons. 
They are all adorned with fine verandas from which the ocean views are 
unequaled, all have elegant parlors, and at the central house, the Plimpton, is a 
magnificent music room, forty by fifty feet. The rooms are provided with gas 
and electric bells, and the houses throughout have all the modern conveniences. 
The sanitary condition of the premises, under the personal attention of the pro- 
prietor, Mr. William Hill, has been most carefully attended to, and the sewer- 
age is lead out into the sea by pipes which extend fifty feet below low water 
mark. In the vicinity are pleasant drives, and good teams are furnished on 
short notice. A telegraph station and the post-office are near, there being two 
mails in and out daily. The houses are all supplied from a spring of pure 
water. A short distance away is the bathing beach, to which a plank walk 
leads all the way. Porters from the houses will be on the wharf on arrival of 
boats, and take charge of all baggage. For families who desire to remain by 
the week, month or season, special arrangements will be made and liberal 
inducements offered, and nothing left undone to promote the comfort and enjoy- 
ment of guests. For enjoyment and comfort these houses and the resort are 
unequaled. The bathing and fishing in the adjoining waters are unsurpassed, and 
there is an entire absence of mosquitoes, caused by the continual breeze and the 
encircling sea which nearly surrounds the Hill. In addition to the other attrac- 
tions, a first-class orchestra furnishes music for the season. 

NOYES BEACH. 

Six miles east of Watch Hill, but yet in the limits of the town of Westerly, 
is Noyes' Beach, a small shore resort, where are about a dozen cottages on a 
bluff' overlooking a beach. These dwellings are mostly occupied by Westerly 
people, and in one or two of them guests are entertained. The difficulty of 
getting to this place, it being six miles away over a dusty road from Niantic, 
the nearest station on the railroad, renders it not so popular as its natural advan- 
tages warrant. Near the beach, on either side, are extensive shore ponds. 

Three miles further east is Quonocontaug, another small resort, situated 
directlv on the beach, and consisting of a few houses inhabited mostly by Wash- 
ington County people. 

SOUTH FERRY AND SAUNDERSTOWN. 

South Ferry, in South Kingstown, is pleasantly located on the shore, 
facing Conanicut and Dutch islands. There is here a church, a post-office, a 
telephone and telegraph station, and splendid fishing, as well as good shoot- 
ing can be had in the vicinity. 

Saunderstown, about a mile above South Ferry, is a cluster of cottages on 
the shore picturesquely situated. 



TAUNTON. 



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'ORKS OF REED & BARTON, TAUNTON, MASS. 



The largest electro-plating works in the United States are those of Reed 
& Barton at Taunton, about a mile from City Square. The group of large 
brick buildings cover four acres along both banks of the Mill River. The 
silver plated goods here manufactured are considered the best in the mar- 
ket, and this is undoubtedly owing to the fact that this special business was 
hist made a success, and the methods of manufacture were originally devel- 
oped in these works. The specialties at present are the manufacture of the 
finest electro-plated white metal hollow ware, nickel silver spoons, forks, 
ladles, and all kinds of nickel silver ware. The entire works are supplied with 
the best machinery and devices so far designed for the manufacture of these 
goods, and the ample rooms and splendid facilities in general give great oppor- 
tunitv for the production not only of the best work, but for its rapid execution. 
■Eight hundred operatives are constantly employed and the machinery is oper- 
ated both by steam and water-power. Artists of talent and long experience 
are employed to design the new patterns constantly being put forth. The firm 
are thereby enabled to produce articles of a high degree of artistic excellence. 

These works were first established in 1824, on a small scale, and as new 
methods have been discovered and put in practice, the business has developed 
from the very insignificant beginning to its present splendid proportions. The 
goods are not only in demand in the United States but large orders are being 
constantly received from foreign countries. The elegant silver plated articles 
cannot be distinguished from real silver, and in beauty, finish, durability and 
excellence of design compare favorably with genuine silver plate. In competi- 
tion with domestic and foreign manufacturers at expositions and industrial ex- 
hibitions the electro-plated goods of the firm have come out triumphant from 
every trial, and a long list of medals were awarded them on these occasions. 

The salesrooms are situated at the factories at Taunton, and at 37 Union 
Square, New York. At these emporiums, are all descriptions of useful and 
ornamental articles in almost endless variety, and they are likewise for sale by 
all the principal dealers in silver and plated ware in America, Europe, South 
America, the West Indies, and Australia. The members of the firm are Messrs. 
H. G. Reed, George Brabrook, F. L. Fish and George H. Fish, all of whom 
have had great practical experience in the business. 



PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 



^5 BUY THE NBWTa^ 

HOUSEHOLD RANGE 

-AJSTID TALKIE n^TO OTHER. 




BECAUSE IT IS THE ONLY RANGE IN NEW ENGLAND 

that is Guaranteed to roast meats of all kinds without basting or turning in the oven, 
and carry all the smell into the chimney. 

One examination of this Range will prove to the most careful buyer its many advan- 
tages. 



White, Warner k Co., 



MANUFACTURERS OF 



Household and Cyclone Ranges, Home Parlor, Etc., 

Tattnton, Mass. 




Part Fifth 



plOTfe gVivlMliu 



THE SITUATION OF THE ISLAND — ITS APPEARANCE FROM AN APPROACHING STEAMER 

— PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS: SHORES, HILLS AM) PONDS — THE CENTRE CLIMATE 

LEGENDS — THE BREAKWATER — CRESCENT BEACH EARLY HISTORY — DEVELOP- 
MENT AS A SUMMER RESORT — FISHING — SOCIAL CONDITIONS — ROUTES. 

Out at sea, unprotected by an)- intervening land, lies Block Island, exposed 
to the full fury of the winds and waves. Standing out in a bold, clear-cut mass, 
the island is a conspicuous object from any elevated point on the southern coast 
of Rhode Island, or from the decks of vessels traversing the upper part of Long 
Island Sound. It is triangular in shape, from seven to eight miles long by 
about three and a half in its widest part, lies out at sea twelve miles from the 
nearest point on the southern coast of Rhode Island, fifteen miles southwest 
from Point Judith, thirty miles from Newport, and eighteen miles northeast 
from Montaup Point, the eastern extremity of Long Island. Geologists say 
that it was originally a continuation of Long Island, but that the waves, through 
a long succession of ages, broke down the intervening land and left the island, 
a lonely sentinel, the outpost of the continent. 

In approaching the island from Newport the first portion that comes into 
view is the northeast coasts formed of high, bold, sand-faced bluff, less than fiftv 
feet in height, with rock-strewn beaches at their bases, while perched on their 
summits some distance back from the edge many houses are scattered. Coast- 
ing along these bluffs for nearly two miles we soon come in sight of Block 
Island Bay, so called, an indentation in the coast hardly deserving the name of 
a bay, because it affords little shelter, for although it lies for two miles along 
shore its extent as a bay measured from the centre of a straight line drawn from 
the breakwater to the northerly headland is not more than half a mile, and the 
waves continually beat on its shores in a moderate surf. The sole reason it is 
entitled to that name is the fact that it is the only approach to a natural harbor 
on the island, the remainder of the coast line being exposed to the full 
force of the waves. The shore of the bay forms a long sweeping curve, is 
known by the name of Crescent Beach, and at its southern part is the principal 
bathing place. At the extreme southern end the shore makes a deeper sweep, 
and here an artificial harbor has been formed by the construction of a govern- 
ment breakwater. 

As we steam across the bay, the harbor, the hotels and dwellings on shore 
in its neighborhood gradually become more distinct. Soon we pass the end of 
the breakwater, consisting of a hugh rough wall of immense blocks of granite 
piled upon each other, and enter a small inclosed basin formed by two " L '' 
shaped wharves, the " Ls" coming together so closely as to form gateway into 
the dock. Here there are accommodations for several vessels. The southed v 



1S2 PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 

wharf is backed up directly by the breakwater and is the landing place for all 
steamers. The northerly one is of the nature of a breakwater, and at its inner- 
side are jsually tied up, head on, as many of the medium sized fishing crafts of 
the islanders as can be accommodated. Outside of this basin, in the space pro- 
tected by the breakwater, is good anchorage ground, much utilized by fishing 
vessels at certain seasons of the year. As many as a hundred and fifty sail some- 
times are counted here waiting for one of the frequent fogs to lift so that they - 
can pursue their avocation again. This harbor, if it can be called such, is only 
available in comparatively mild weather, and not at all during strong northerly 
or easterly winds. 

Along the shore and on low rolling hills facing the harbor is the most con- 
siderable community on the island, consisting of a collection of summer hotels, 
a few dwellings, a church and several stores, and the whole place lies fully in 
view from the deck of an approaching steamer. It has a scattered-looking 
appearance. The only compact portion is a row of hotels and other buildings 
extending along shore from the landing to the Post-Office, the distance being 
less than half a mile. These buildings are on a low bluff, with a street inter- 
vening between them and its edge, while the shore in front is a gently shelving 
beach on which the fishermen haul up their boats, and at the foot of the bluff 
extending north from the landing are rows offish sheds that are generally taken 
by visitors, at first sight, for bathing houses. Beyond the Post-Office, which 
stands on a miniature headland, the shore curves inward and the bathing beach 
properly begins. Three main roads lead out of this section, and they with their 
ramifications reach every portion of the island. Northward runs the Neck road 
leading to Sandy Point and light, a distance in this way of about six miles ; 
directly across the island westward runs Main Street, between three and four 
miles in length, midway passing through the " Centre," the only other village 
on the island ; southward High Street leads up the hills to the southern bluffs 
and the lighthouse, a distance of about two miles. 

The bulk of the island is in the southern part, where the distance across is 
about four miles. From there it tapers gradually to a point at the extreme 
north. Southward the land slopes gradually upward from the harbor to a 
series of high, precipitous and picturesque bluffs, rising from ioo to 150 feet in 
height, which form the coast of the island in this direction. The faces of these 
bluffs are formed of clay, cut up intopinacles, headlands, precipices and slopes,, 
while the shore at their base is strewn with boulders and rocks rounded by the 
ceaseless rolling of the waves. The effect on approaching these cliffs, as they 
are sometimes wrongfully called, is very unique. The greensward of the hills 
reaches to their edge, and in places the sea is not seen until the observer is on 
the brink, when, looking sheer downward for nearly two hundred feet, the sen- 
sation is as if one was suspended between sea and sky. 

A portion of the southeast corner of the island is known as Mohegan 
Bluff", from the story that a party of the Mohegan tribe of Indians on an invad- 
ing expedition from the mainland were here penned up and destroyed by the 
island Indians, the Manissees. Near the edge of this bluff', which is about one 
hundred and fifty feet above mean low water, stands a fine government light- 
house, whose lantern gleams 204 feet above the sea. This lighthouse, one of 



1 82 PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 

wharf is hacked up directly hy the breakwater and is the landing place for all 
steamers. The northerly one is of the nature of a breakwater, and at its inner- 
side are asually tied up, head on, as many of the medium sized fishing crafts of 
the islanders as can be accommodated. Outside of this basin, in the space pro- 
tected by the breakwater, is good anchorage ground, much utilized by fishing 
vessels at certain seasons of the year. As many as a hundred and fifty sail some- 
times are counted here waiting for one of the frequent fogs to lift so that they 
can pursue their avocation again. This harbor, if it can be called such, is only 
available in comparatively mild weather, and not at all during strong northerly 
or easterly winds. 

Along the shore and on low rolling hills facing the harbor is the most con- 
siderable community on the island, consisting of a collection of summer hotels, 
a few dwellings, a church and several stores, and the whole place lies fully in 
view from the deck of an approaching steamer. It has a scattered-looking 
appearance. The only compact portion is a row of hotels and other buildings 
extending along shore from the landing to the Post-Office, the distance being 
less than half a mile. These buildings are on a low bluff, with a street inter- 
vening between them and its edge, while the shore in front is a gently shelving 
beach on which the fishermen haul up their boats, and at the foot of the bluff 
extending north from the landing are rows offish sheds that are generally taken 
by visitors, at first sight, for bathing houses. Beyond the Post-Office, which 
stands on a miniature headland, the shore curves inward and the bathing beach 
properly begins. Three main roads lead out of this section, and they with their 
ramifications reach every portion of the island. Northward runs the Neck road 
leading to Sandy Point and light, a distance in this way of about six miles ' y 
directly across the island westward runs Main Street, between three and four 
miles in length, midway passing through the " Centre," the only other village 
on the island ; southward High Street leads up the hills to the southern bluffs 
and the lighthouse, a distance of about two miles. 

The bulk of the island is in the southern part, where the distance across is 
about four miles. From there it tapers gradually to a point at the extreme 
north. Southward the land slopes gradually upward from the harbor to a 
series of high, precipitous and picturesque bluffs, rising from ioo to 150 feet in 
height, which form the coast of the island in this direction. The faces of these 
bluffs are formed of clay, cut up into.pinacles, headlands, precipices and slopes, 
while the shore at their base is strewn with boulders and rocks rounded by the 
ceaseless rolling of the waves. The effect on approaching these cliffs, as they 
are sometimes wrongfully called, is very unique. The greensward of the hills 
reaches to their edge, and in places the sea is not seen until the observer is on 
the brink, when, looking sheer downward for nearly two hundred feet, the sen- 
sation is as if one was suspended between sea and sky. 

A portion of the southeast corner of the island is known as Mohegan 
Bluff', from the story that a party of the Mohegan tribe of Indians on an invad- 
ing expedition from the mainland were here penned up and destroyed by the 
island Indians, the Manissees. Near the edge of this bluff", which is about one 
hundred and fifty feet above mean low water, stands a fine government light- 
house, whose lantern gleams 204 feet above the sea. This lighthouse, one of 



,S 4 PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSE1 T. 

the best equipped on the coast, is a handsome brick structure erected in 1S74 at 
accost of $75,000, and contains a Fresnel cylindrical lens of the first order, 
which cost about $10,000. Almost on the edge of the bluff near the lighthouse 
are two powerful fog horns operated by small steam engines, which pierce the 
air with their shrill shrieks every half minute during the fogs which so frequently 
envelop the island. Returning from Mohegan Bluffs and the lighthouse " across 
lots" directly northward for the greater portion of the distance the harbor and 
hotels are in view, and on a nearer approach, especially if there are man)- ves- 
sels in the bay, the picture spread before the eye is one of the most beautiful to 
be had on the island. The bluffs between the lighthouse and landing gradually 
become lower, and form a succession of pleasing curves. About midway is a 
wild mass of rock projecting out a short distance into the ocean, and known as 
Old Harbor Point. On its south side is Pebbly Beach, a favorite resort for 
summer visitors, where ai - e found in great profusion waveworn stones of every 
shape and hue. 

The bluffs on the south side of the island reach their highest elevation 
about half a mile west of the lighthouse, attaining to a sheer elevation of 163 
feet above mean low water. From there they gradually recede until at Black 
Rock Point and at Southwest Point, two miles westward, they are less than a 
hundred feet above the sea. The western shore may be said to begin here. 
The bluffs continue all along that side of the island, but they are low and sandy 
with much less variety than on the southern coast. The most westerly portion 
of the island is Dicken's Point, which has but a slight elevation, and is directly 
west across the island from Old Harbor Point, the distance being about three 
and a half miles, the greater breadth of the island. 

Midway of the length of the island is Great Pond, which in comparison 
to the size of the island is an inland sea. The width of the island here is less 
than a mile and a half, and this pond in its broadest part stretches nearly from 
shore to shore, on the west a narrow strip of land, in no instance five hundred 
feet in width, being the only barrier between it and the ocean, while on the east 
it approaches within several hundred feet of Crescent Beach. This pond was 
formerly connected with the sea from the west, and was used in the early years 
of the century as a harbor by small vessels. A project is now on foot to again 
break through this beach, mainly to allow the pond to again become stocked 
with salt water fish. Great Pond is about a mile in width by a mile and a 
half in length . 

Beyond the great pond the island extends northward for about two miles 
in the form of a narrow peninsula hardly more than a mile wide, and termi- 
nates in a long point to the northwest. This promontory from its character 
is called Sandy Point, and near its extremity is a stone lighthouse, built in 1S67. 
It is the fourth lighthouse in this locality, the other three, the first of which was 
built in 1829, being rendered useless by the shifting sands on which they were 
located. 

The surface of the island is almost wholly formed of hills and ponds. In 
every hollow is a sheet of water, which range in size from the great pond cov- 
ering a thousand acres or more to little pools a few feet in circumference, and 



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are so many in number that it would be a difficult task to count them. The 
principal large ponds are Chagum, Middle, Wash, Trim's, Harbor, Sands, and 
Fresh ponds. Probably some of these ponds are sustained by springs, but the 
most likely solution of their existence is found in the clayey character of the 
soil, which "holds the water like cauldrons," and thus retains the surface drain- 
age from the frequent rains, while in summer they are protected from evapora- 
tion by the humid atmosphere and frequent fogs. Those along the shore are 
supposed to obtain their waters from the ocean by filtration through the sands. 

The island is full of hills. The Rev. S. T. Livermore, its historian, gives 
the following graphic description of its remarkable appearance : " No person 
ever saw the surface of the ocean more uneven than is the land of Block Island. 
. . . Imagine several tidal waves, moving in nearly the same direction, from 
west to east, each rising about one hundred and fifty feet above the level of the 
sea, and their bases nearly touching each other ; and on the top, sides, and 
intervales of these, ' chop waves' in every conceivable shape and position, cov- 
ering completely the tidal waves ; and when the reader has done this, he has 
an outline of the view under the observer's eye who stands in a good light upon 
Beacon Hill." The last named elevation is the highest land on the island, 
being 211 feet above the sea level, and from its summit not only the entire 
island, its hills and ponds, can be seen, but the sea is visible on all sides except 
where the bluffs are highest at the southeast, and Long Island Sound, the 
shores of Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Long Island are plainly visible on 
clear days, the whole affording a truly magnificent prospect. Beacon Hill is 
about two miles west of the landing. 

The numerous ponds, the abundant rains and fogs keep the island in a 
condition of beautiful verdure ; even during the sultry summer weather its hills 
are green and pleasant. Like Nantucket, Block Island is almost without trees, 
although traditions say that when first discovered by Europeans it was covered 
with forest. There is now no good reason to believe that trees would not grow 
in most of the sheltered valleys, and it is to be hoped that effort will be made 
to plant and cultivate them, as they would add much to the beauty of the 
already charming isle. The original forests were undoubtedly cut down and 
used for building material and fuel. From the time of their disappearance 
until about 1846 the fuel used on the island was peat obtained from many of 
the numerous ponds, where the vegetable deposit through long ages had 
formed into this material. But little is now used, although on the margins of 
many of the ponds the places where it was formerly cut can be easily discerned. 
Coal is now the principal fuel here, as elsewhere. 

Near the geographical centre of the island and about a mile and a half 
by road westward from the harbor is " The Centre," a cross-roads with a few 
houses, a church, school, and the town house, a plain wooden building which 
also contains the "Island Library," a collection of several hundred volumes. 
The road to the Centre leads through pleasant farms, several of which have con- 
siderable orchards. Excellent views of the island's landscape are had, the 
whole surface being scattered with dwellings, so that there are really no deso- 
late regions. Near the Centre are two quaint old wind-mills. The visitor who 



BLOCK ISLAND. 187 

does not go beyond the harbor has little chance of observing the beauty of the 
island. 

Notwithstanding the great exposure to the ocean breezes — in fact, because 
of it — Block Island is a delightful resort in summer. The climate is like that 
of Bermuda, the temperature rarely rising above 75 degrees, and being in the 
centre of conflicting ocean currents, its atmosphere is surcharged with ozone 
and other life-giving elements. 

The island was formerly the scene of many shipwrecks, and many are the 
weird stories of wreckers that have here been given a ' ' local habitation and a 
name." The most famous of these legends is that of the Palatine light, said to 
be a phantom ship, but probably some irradiation that passes over the surface 
of the deep. It was last observed in 1SS0 by Thomas Peace Hazard. 

The government breakwater already mentioned consists of a huge wall of 
uncut stone projecting nearly fifteen hundred feet into the ocean. The work of 
building it was begun in 1871, and nearly every season since additional work 
has been done either in extending or repairing it. Previous to that time visitors 
to the island had to come ashore in small boats through the surf. The native 
Block Islanders were formerly very expert boatmen, as they had to navigate 
their boats through the surf every time they entered or left the water, and they 
developed a type of boat specially adapted to this trying service. This boat 
was small and light, sharp at both ends, and of a peculiar shape. Few of them 
are now in existence. 

Crescent Beach, the magnificent bathing place, did not exist in its present 
form until after the great September gale of 1815, when the sea broke over, 
leveled a range of low sand dunes, and formed the existing beach. The sea in 
various parts of the island is continually encroaching on the land, the remorse- 
less ocean is forever gnawing at the base of the bluffs, particularly on the south 
side, and frost and storm yearly tumble down thousands of tons to be swept 
away by the waves, thus moving the shore line landward every year. Hardly 
seventy years ago, while writing his famous Palatine letter to the Hon. S. L. 
Mitchell, of New York, Dr. Aaron C. Willey sat in his house less than five 
hundred feet northeast of the present Post-office, and looked out on the road 
between his house and the ocean. The road nas disappeared and the site of 
the Willey House is now swept by the waves -of the Atlantic more than two 
hundred feet from the land. 

Block Island was first brought to the notice of the New England settlers by 
the murder of Captain John Oldham and his companions in 1636 by its savage 
inhabitants. On that account expeditions were fitted out from Boston by which 
the Indian inhabitants were punished and subdued, and the island then became 
the possession of Massachusetts, but was afterwards sold to private parties by 
the colony, and finally, in 1672, was duly incorporated as a Rhode Island 
town, and was named New Shoreham. The name perpetuates the memory of 
Adrian Block, an old Dutch navigator, who visited it in 1614. Verazzano, the 
Florentine navigator and explorer, saw it in 1524 as he passed along the coast, 
and he reported that it was full of hills and covered with trees. 

Within the last fifteen years Block Island has been gradually coming into 



1 88 PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 

prominence as a summer resort, until at present it probably lias a greater num- 
ber of hotels than other any resort on the New England coast. Perhaps this 
statement ought to be qualified by saying that Narragansett Pier, with fewer 
hotels, has accommodations for a larger number of persons. Block Island, how- 
ever, is as yet mainly a hotel resort. 

One of the great attractions of Block Island is the fishing to be enjoyed oft 
its shores or in the surrounding waters. About a third of the islanders are en- 
gaged in the fisheries, and the cod, mackerel, and swordfish are those chiefly 
sought for commercial purposes. The favorite sport of summer visitors is to 
fish for bluefish from a Block Island boat in the care of a hardy skipper, or bet- 
ter still to throw the line for sea bass from the foot of the bluffs on the south 
shore, where frequently very good catches are made. The ponds abound in 
fish, particularly Great Pond, and many of the summer visitors prefer this sport 
to the danger and disagreeable features incident to sea fishing. 

A large proportion of the inhabitants, contrary to popular belief, make 
their living by farming, and a considerable area of the island is cultivated, some 
of the hills even to their summits. The sea-weed gathered on the shores makes 
an excellent fertilizer and is much used for that purpose. Large quantities of 
carrageen or Irish moss is gathered every season, principally on the west side of 
the island, and brings a good revenue to some of the islanders. There are no 
wild animals on the island, but many migratory birds make it a resting place at 
certain seasons of the year. Quite a number of sheep are kept by the farmers, 
and they form pleasing pictures grazing on the hill sides. Block Island mut- 
ton is famous for its flavor, which it owes probably to the excellent climate and 
fine grazing. 

The population of the island in 1SS5 was 1,257, and of those about ninety per 
cent, were American born and all but 193 were born on the island. There 
are no poor on the island-, and no almshouse. Nearly all the families own their 
own houses and land, and probably not more than five native families rent 
houses. The fisherman's property consists of his dwelling, a small piece of 
land for his garden, and his boat. This general ownership of their homes and 
lands has always made the islanders a peculiarly independent and genuinely 
democratic community, and as a consequence the standard of intelligence among 
them has been and is much in advance of the average rural population on the 
mainland. 

There is during the summer a choice of three routes to reach Block Island : 
The Continental steamer leaving Providence at 9.00 A. M. connects at New- 
port with steamer Geo. W. Dcuiieho7i, which leaves that port daily except Sun- 
days for the island, at 12.30 p. M. and returning leaves the island at 8.00 
A. m. The new steamer A/ount Hope leaves Providence every Tuesday and 
Saturday at 9.00 a. m., and Newport on same days at 10.00 A. m., and also 
leaves Providence Sundays at 10.00 A. m. ; returning, leaves Block Island same 
days at 3.00 p. M. The sea-going steamer Block Island leaves Norwich daily 
(except Sunday), at 8.15 A. m., New London at 9.30, touching at Watch 
Hill, arrives at the island at 12.30, and leaves at 2.00 p. m. 



i 9 o PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 

The original hotel at Block Island was the Spring House, established by 
its present proprietor, Hon. B. B. Mitchell, more than twenty years ago, when 
only two mails a week reached the island and the only means of communication 
with the mainland were the frail boats of the islanders. It was the foundation 
of the development of the island as a summer resort, and in spite of dull sea- 
sons and adverse circumstances the doors of the house have always been open. 
With the increase of summer business that in time came, accommodations had 
to be increased, until at present it consists of the old Spring House fronting 
east, the new Spring House fronting north, both forming one building, while 
in addition is the Annex, a good sized summer hotel in itself. These houses 
are situated on extensive grounds sloping down to the water's edge, and are 
elevated above the sea two hundred feet, while they are only a short distance 
from the landing. The proprietor, Hon. B. B. Mitchell, has largely assisted in 
developing the island as a summer resort, for besides his work in maintaining 
the Spring House, by his services in the Rhode Island General Assembly and 
his correspondence with public men, he has been largely instrumental in bring- 
ing about the construction of the breakwater and in introducing other improve- 
ments that have contributed so much to render the island popular. The house 
has all the modern conveniences, and is especially famous for its water supply 
which is obtained from the celebrated spring from which it takes its name, and 
which in fact first gave the impetus to Block Island as a summer resort. 
There are, in reality, two, differing radically in the quality of their waters, but 
both adapted for all purposes. Its ample grounds, fine location, pure and brac- 
ing water, conservative and careful management, all render this hotel one of the 
finest sojourning places on the island. 



On an elevation overlooking the harbor, but a short distance from the land- 
ing, and reached by a short walk or drive is the Norwich House, which from 
its situation fully justifies its good name. From its piazzas the breakwater, the 
shipping, the village, and the hotels all lie at the spectator's feet, while a large 
portion of the island, its shores, hills, and ponds, are spread out to view. The 
house is surrounded by grassy slopes, thereby avoiding the flying sand that pre- 
vails near the highways. It is fitted up in a comfortable, commodious style, 
with modern conveniences. The terms are moderate, and every attention and 
courtesy is extended to the guests. 



Near the landing, seated on the edge of the bluff, the street running on the 
landward side of it, is the Harbor Cottage, run by C. C. Ball, and one of the 
best appointed hotels in the place. For location and outlook it is unexcelled, 
and its table is well supplied, as Mr. Ball has his large store near by to draw 
from constantly. 



THE HOTEL LIST. 



BLOCK ISLAND. 

Surf Cottage, Charles W. Willis; on bluff near bathing 
beach; 50 rooms. Rates from $10 to $15 per week; 
$2.50 per clay. 

Connecticut House, M. M. Day; 33 rooms. Rates $8 to 
$12 per week. 

Woonsoeket House. Almanza J. Rose; midway between 
steamboat landing and bathing- beach; 50 rooms. 
Rates $2 per day. 

Bellevue House, L. B. Mott; 20 rooms. $1.50 per day; 
$7 to $10 per week. 

Block Island House, G. W. Oonley; half a mile from 
landing-; 30 rooms. $8, $10, and $12 per week. 

Hotel Manisses, O. S. Marden; 76 rooms. Rates $2.50, 
$3.00. and $3.50 per day; $12 per week and upwards. 

Highland House, D. A. Mitchell ; 50 rooms. Rates on ap- 
plication. 

SeaSide House, Captain Francis Willie; Beach Avenue; 
30 rooms. $8 to $10 per week. 

Pequot House, Thaddeus A. Ball; Main street, near 
beach ; 55 rooms. $9 to $15 per week ; $2 per day. 

Neptune Hotel, Wm. A. Durfee; 40 rooms. $2 per day; 
$10 per week and upwards. 

The Adrian, Nathan Mott; 45 rooms. Rates on applica- 
tion. 

Narragansett House, Reuben F. Randall; near wharf; 31 
rooms. $y to $14 per week; $2 per day. 

Union House, Leander A. Ball ; three minutes' walk from 
landing; 25 rooms. $2 per day. 

Ocean View Hotel, Nicholas Ball, proprietor; O. S. Mar- 
den, F. C. Cundall. managers; 3?o rooms. $3.5" to 
$5 per day ; $21 to $35 per week. 

Spring House, B. B. Mitchell ; on heights overlooking 
landing; accommodations for BOO guests in large 
hotel and in an annex as large as ordinary hotel. 
Rates on application. 

The Hygeia, C H. Hadley, M. I)., proprietor; S. A. Snow, 
manager. 

National House, Ray G Lewis; near post office; 65 
rooms. $10 to $25 per week. 

Norwich House, J. E. Rose; 16 rooms. $8 to $12 per week. 

Harbor Cottage, C. C. Ball; at landing; 25 rooms. $10 to 
$12 per week.. 

BRISTOL. 

Bristol Hotel, Martin V. Newton ; 34 rooms. $2 per day. 

BRISTOL FERRY, R. I. 



CHARLESTOWN, R. I. 

Ocean House, Peleg E. Sisson; northern shore of Pa- 
wawget or Charlestown Poud, Southern Rhode Is- 
land ; 20 rooms. $7 to $8 per week. 

CHARLESTOWN BEACH. 

Ninigret House, H. W. Taler. Furnishes table board for 
cottagers and others. 



CUMBERLAND HILL, R. I. 

Highland House, Mrs. George A. Jencks; about a mile 
from Manville; 16 rooms. $10 per week. 

EAST GREENWICH. 

Updike House, Nathaniel Carpenttr; Main Street; 40 

rooms. 32 per day. 
Central House, Edwin M. Tilley; 81 Main Street. 17 
rooms. $1 to $1.50 per day. 



EAST PROVIDENCE. 

Fyler's Cottage Home, E. W. Fyler; near steamboat 
landing; 20 rooms. $7 to $10 per week for one in 
room ; $12 to $15 for two in room. 

Silver Spring House, H. P. Bliss; Silver Spring. 3 miles 
from Providence; 20 rooms. $2 per day; $7 to $10 . 
per week. 

What Cheer House, Bullock's Point, Jas. E. Woodward; 
50 rooms. $1 to $1.50 per day. 

Riverside Hotel, George W. Paton; Lincoln Avenue; 50 
rooms. $1 per day. 

River View Park Hotel, Beverly J Ring; Pomham Bluff; 
25 rooms. $1 to $1.50 per day. 

Perry House. Emma A. Perry; Grant Avenue; accommo- 
dation for 30. $1 per day; $6 to $10 per week. 

Camp White House, Alfred A. White; Riverside; 75 
rooms. $1 to $1.50 per day. 



FALL RIVER. 



Commercial House. William L. Fish; 32, 32',., and 34 Sec- 
ond Street, rear City Hall; 20 rooms. $1.50 to $2 
per day. 

Wilbur House. George K Wilbur; 17 to 25 North Main 
Street ; 75 rooms. $2 50 per day. 

Narraganset Hotel, George F. Kingsley; 57 North Main 
Street ; 60 rooms. $2 per day. 

Mellen House, George Bowker & Co.; North Main 
Street. Accommodations for 150. 

Richardson House, A. C. Durfee; corner Main and Cen- 
tral streets; 100 rooms ; European or American 
plan. 

Park House, John West; 210, 242. and 244 South Main 
Street. European plan. 

Evans House, W. C. Evans; 43 North Main; 25 rooms. 
$1.50 per day. 

Vickery's Hotel, Charles P. Vickery; 7 North Main 
Street; 30 rooms. $1 per day. 

JAMESTOWN. 

Gardner House, Jamestown, opposite Newport; 70 rooms, 

$2 per day. 
Bay View House, Charles T. Knowles; Jamestown, op- 

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LITTLE COMPTON, R. I. 

The Sakonnet, J. L. Slocum, Seaconnet Point; 25 rooms 
and accommodations in Wilbur Cottage adjoining. 
$14 per week. 

NARRAGANSETT PIER. 

Revere House. F. P. W. Tefft, lessee; Ocean Road; 100 

rooms. $3 per day. 
Metatoxet House, John H. Caswill; 75 rooms. Double 

rooms $25 to $28, single $15 to $20 per week; $3 per 

day for one person. 
Narragansett, Ezbon S. Taylor; Ocean Road; 40 rooms; 

$15 to $25 per week ; $3 per day. 
The Mount Hope. William G. Caswell; Ocean Avenue; 

136 rooms. $3 to $4 per day. 
The Mathewson, S. W. Mathewson; Ocean Avenue: 150 

rooms. $4 per day. Special rate for week or month. 
The Gladstone, W. A. Nye ; 125 rooms. $4 to $5 per day ; 

f20 to $35 per week single room; $30 to $45 per week 
ouble rooms. 
The Rockingham, James G. Burns; corner of Main Street 
and Sea Side Avenue; 120 rooms. $3.50 to $4.00 per 
day. 
The Atwood, James A. Tucker; loo rooms. $3 and up. 
wards. 



PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 



Massasoit House. John Babcook; Mathewson Street; 70 

rooms. $3 to $3.50 per day. 
Atlantic House, S. T. Browning; 100 rooms. $2.50 to $4 

per day. 
The Delavan, J. O. Chandler; 57 rooms, and 6 in cottage. 

$3.50 per day for transients. 
Ocean House, Geo. N. Kenyon ; Caswell Street ; 50 rooms. 

$3 per day; $14 to $17 single rooms, $22 to $25 

double rooms per week. 
Congdon House, David A. Segar; five minutes' drive 

from railroad station; 15 rooms. $10 to $20 per 

week. 
Hotel Columbus, W. A. Nye; accommodation for 100 

guests. $4 per day ; $20 to $30 per week single room ; 

$30 to $40 per week double rooms. 
The Continental, A. F. Saunders; 120 rooms. $3 to $4 

per day. 

NEWPORT. 



Bray ton House, B. R. Bray ton; 38 and 44 Pelham Street; 

33 rooms. $2.00 to $2.50 per day. 
TheAquidueck, L. F. Attleton; Pelham Street; 75 rooms. 

$2.50 to $4 per day. 
Perry House, Henry Bull. Jr. ; Washington Square ; 100 

rooms. $3 per day. 



Germania Hotel, Richard Holzinger; State foot of Down- 
ing Street; 12 rooms. $2 per day. 

Sherman House, M. E. Lewin; 105 Thames; 30 rooms; 
$1.00, $1.25, and $1 50 per day. 

Cliff Avenue Hotel and Cottages, M. F. Messer; eight 
cottages on Cliffs; meals and <-erviee, and cottages 
in other parts city. Rates on application. 

Clifton House, R. P. Cummiugs; 113 to 115 Bellevue 
Avenue ; 33 rooms. $2 50 to $3 per day. 

NORTH SCITUATE, R. I. 

Moswansicut House. Henry Turner; on shores of Lake 
Moswansicut; 100 rooms. $7 to $10 per week. 

NOYES' NECK, WESTERLY, R. I. 

Chapman House, Harris P. Chapman, 2d ; rooms in house 
and adjoining cottages. $1.50 per day ; special rates 
to permanent guests. 

PEACEDALE, R. I. 

Peacedale House, Mrs. John Sykes; 25 rooms. $1 per 
day. 

PAWTUCKET. 

Benedict House, A. Franz Donath; corner Main and 

Broad Streets ; loo rooms. $2 per day. 
Pawtucket Hotel, D. W. Bucklin; 23 Broadway. 

PROVIDENCE. 

Hotel Dorrauce, George W. Cross; corner Dorrance 
and Westminster Streets ; 200 rooms ; European plan. 
$1.00 per day and upward. 

Narragansett Hotel, L. H. Humphreys; corner Broad 
and Dorrance Streets; 300 rooms ; rates according to 
location of rooms. 

Hotel Perriu, Josiah B. Reed; 127. 129. and 131 Washing- 
ton Street; 60 rooms. $2.00 per day. 

Central Hotel, Hopkins & Sears; 6, Canal Street; 84 
rooms; European plan: Rooms 5ilc., 75c, and $1.00 
per day. American plan: $1.50 to $2 00 per day. 

Musee Hotel, Joseph S. Wheeler; 1 Aborn Street; 2£ 
rooms. $1.00 per day. 

iEtna Hotel (formerlv Freeman House), James S. Shat- 
tuck ; 96 Union Street ; 70 rooms. $1.50 per day. 

Hotel St. George, Thomas Miller proprietor; F. T. Dods- 
worth, manager; 66, 68, ami 7o Washington Street;62 
rooms. Special theatrical rates, $1.00 per day. Tran- 
sient rates, $1.25 per day. 

Hopkins Hotel, Truman A. Cunliff; 421 and 423 High 
Street ; 50 rooms. $1.50 per day. 

Mansion House, George R. Earle: 159 Benefit Street; 50 
rooms. $1.00 to $1.50 per day ; $5, $6, $7, and $8 per 
week . 

Revere Hotel, Henry L. Carter; corner Pine and Dor- 
rance Streets; 30 rooms; European plan, 



City Hotel, 148 and 150 Broad. 

Bijou Hotel, 110 Union, Matthew Barry. 

Girard Hotel, E. W. Tinker, 51 to 55 Eddy. 

WAKEFIELD, R. I. 

Wakefield House, Jeremiah Briggs; 18 rooms. $2 per 

day. 
Columbia House, George S, Holland, Jr. ; 40 rooms. $1 to 

$2 per day. 

WARREN. 

Fessendeu House, George L. Crump; corner Main and 
Croade Streets : accommodations for 50. $ 1.50 to $2 
per day; $6 to $12 per week. 

Cole's Hotel, Jeremiah Goff; Main, corner Joyce Street; 
35 rooms. $1.50 to $2 per day ; $6 to $10 per week. 

WARWICK. 

Apponaug Hotel, Apponaug, Geo. H. Clough; 25 rooms. 

$2 per day. 
James Tinker's Hotel (Bank Cafe), PawtuXet, Warwick 

side. 
Warwick Neck House, B. S. Hazard; Warwick Neck; 40 

rooms. Terms on application. 
Oakland Beach Hotel, E. Stanton; 115 rooms, and one 

cottage with nine rooms. Terms on application. 
Oakland Beach Farm House, Mrs. J. M. Phibbricks; 25 

rooms. $2 to $4 per day. 
Old Buttonwoods House, Albert Hopkins, at Old But- 

tonwoods Beach, Greenwich Bay; 24 rooms. $7 to 

$9 per week. 
Buttonwood Beach Hotel, Mrs. Kate Brown, Cowesset 

Bay ; 40 rooms. $2 to $3 per day. 
Warwick Arms Hotel, Mrs. R. D. Goey; Rocky Point. $12 

to $16 per week. 
Cady's Hotel, River View, Mrs. T. N. Arnold, manager. 
Bay Side Hotel, Thomas W. Gorton; 45 rooms; $17 
to $30 for two persons per week. 

WATCH HILL. 

Atlantic House, O. S. Spencer; 80 rooms. $2 and $3 per 

day ; $ 10 to $ 21 per week. 
Plympton. Bay View, and Dickens Houses, William Hill, 

all fronting on Little Narragansett Bay ; 250 rooms ; 

dining-room at Plympton. $3 in Plympton; $2.50 

in Bay View; $2 in Dickens. 
Larkin House, D. F. Larkin ; 206 rooms ; accommodations 

for 400 guests. 
Narragansett House, N. E. Nash ; 27 rooms. Reasonable, 

according to location. 
Ocean House, J. F. Champlin ; 150 rooms. $4 per day. 
Peninsula House, Coates and Ockington; 40 rooms. 

Terms on application. 
Watch Hill House, A. R. Hale; 165 rooms. $4 per day. 

WESTERLY. 

Dixon House, Chauncey W. Johnson, Broad Street ; 125 

rooms. $2 to $3 per day. 
Leonard House, Charles Leonard, Main Street; 25 rooms. 

$1 to $1.50 per day. 
Windsor House, Wm. S. Robinson, 59 High Street; 4 

rooms. $1 50 per day. 

WICKFORD. 

Narragansett House, Henry S. Congdon; corner Wall 
and Main Streets ; 17 rooms, $1 to $2 per day. 

Cold Spring House, T. C. Peirce and C. P. Peirce; 51 
rooms. $2.50 per day; $10 to $15 per week. 

Bay View House, Daniel Lawton ; 20 rooms. $7 to $10 per 
week. 

WOONSOCKET. 

Woonsocket Hotel, Cook. Mason & Co.; Market Square; 

75 rooms. $2 per day. 
Monument House. S. W. Elliott & Co,; WQUWOeut 

Square; 75 rooms. $2 per (Jay, 



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Elevator ana Telephone. 

GELB & MOHN, 

CATERERS, 
ICE CREAM PARLORS, 

157 Westminster Street, 
Providence, R. I. 



WILLIAM R. BROWN, 

COSTUMES, BBflAMAS, JEWELS, I. O. 
B. M. PARAPHERNALIA, 

Gold and "j®lated Emblem^, 

Ribbon Badges and Rosettes,, Constitutions and By-Laws, Ball 

Programmes, Tickets, Address Cards, all kinds of Society 

Printing. Write for prices. 

77 Dorrnnce Street, Providence. 



PATENTS 

U. S. AND FOREIGN. 

josMi.uiu,w:iu- c«.. 

SOLICITORS 



EXPERTS. 

25 Butler Exchange, 
PROVIDENCE, R. I. 

Reports and Arguments furnished in Patent 

Litigation. Assistance and Counsel rendered 

a3 Experts in patent cases. 



European, Canadian, and American Patents 
for Inventions, Designs and Trade- 
Marks procured promptly. 



Researches made to determine the validity of Ameri- 
can and Foreign Patents. 



PICTURESQJJE NARRAGANSETT. 



84 South Water St., 

Providence, R. I. 




TELEPHONE. 

The Leading- 
ANUFACTURER 




Awnings, Tents, Flags & Waterproof Covers. Yacht Work a Specialty. 



ESTABLISHED IN 1870. 



CUSHMAN BROS. & CO., 



WINDOW SHADES 



Curtain Fixtures, Opaque and Tint Cloths, Hollands 
and Upholstery Hardware, Upholstery Goods. 

82, 84 & 86 Hawley St., Boston, Mass. 

Philadelphia Store, 917 FILBERT STREET. 



Our Stock is the largest, our prices as low as any house in the line. 

Our Spring Shade Boilers, Tint Cloths and Opaques are the 
very best goods on the market. 

Buy CUSHMAN'S make of goods and you will get articles guaranteed perfect. 
We are manufacturers and sell to all first-class houses throughout the United States 
a nd Canada. 





LOWELL, Mass. 

A. V. PARTRIDGE, Prop. 

FRANK PARTRIDGE, — Clerks. — W. H. BOODY, 

Check all Baggage to Merrimack .St. Depot. 

Horse Cars to all parts of the City pass the 

door every seven minutes. 

First-Class Theatre Connected with the 

House, 
Proprietor of Theatre and City.Bill Poster. 



PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 



IF YOU WANT TO SAVE MONEY 

BUY YOUR 

Seeds, Lawn Mowers, Farming Tools, 

Buckeye Mowing Machines, Horse Hakes, 

Hay Tedders, Grindstones and Wooden Ware 

At Headquarters. 

W. IE. IBJL^IE^IETT & CO., 

-^*3 ctrxcl -5-^ Canal Street, Providence, R. I. 



Gideon Spencer. 



Nemlah A. Wood. 



Spencer & Wood, 

DENTISTS, 

269 Westminster St., Providence, R. I. 

Teeth extracted without pain. 



Best Wlmmm im ilk® City 

To get PHOTOGRAPHS at Reasonable Prices. 

BEST CABINET 

Only !*3.00 per dozen at 

Bunnell's Photo Studio, 

357 Westminster Street. 

I will redeem checks issued from any photograph 
establishment, with i*J.50, and guarantee the pic- 
tures to be as good as any made anywhere in the city. 
Remember the price, time and place. 



NEW ENGLAND VGHT1LATINBM HEATIHC CO., 



MANUFACTURERS OF 



Power, Stationary § Revolving Ventilators 



For the removal of Steam, Smoke, Foul 

Air and Gases. 

OS- A Specialty made of 

Galvanized Iron 

DUST PIPES 

For Opener* and trappers. AImo 
for Conveying Cotton and Wool 
Stock, and for Ventilating Public 
Buildings. 

All kinds of Sheet Metal Work per- 
taining to Cotton and Woolen Mills and 
Machinery executed at short notice. 




OFFICE AND WOK KM 



566, 568 and 570 Manton Avenue, 

Providence, R. T. 

■I?/. P^IOIrHI^IE^IDSOlsr, PBOPHIBTOIl. 



PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 



Established, i@g®. 



DEALER IN 



Hats, Caps, feadtes' Rtcft Furs, 

FUR ROBES, SEAL CAPS AND GLOVES, FUR TRIMMINGS, Etc. 
Gentlemen's ifcuraialiing €to@ds, ^sntarellaa %ii Canes* 



A choice assortment of the latest style Hats, in Dunlap, Youman, Miller, and other 

fashionable shapes, in all qualities. Dress Shirts, Gloves, Hosiery, 

Neckwear, Suspenders, Etc. 

239 Westminster street, providence, r. I. 



W. J. NICHOLS, 



: : : : gatl? • Room^, 

If®. 3;§ Harkef Sq^nare, 

PROVIDENCE, R. I. 



Twelve First-class Workmen. 

Razors Honed at Short Notice. 



EDWIN E. CALDER, 

Professor of Chemistry in Boston 
University, 

Analytical tk Consulting Chemist. 

14 & 15 Board of Trade Building, 

Telephone 1063-2. 

PROVIDENCE, R. I. 



Particular attention given to the examination of 
water for drinking purposes. 



HENRY W. COZZENS, 

ELE©T^I©I/\N( 



CONTRACTOR FOR ■ 



ELECTRIC BELLS, BURGLAR ALARMS, 
Electric Cas Lighting, 

Electrical Supplies, Speaking Tubes, Etc. Repairing- a 
Specialty. Office of Chief Engineer of Fire Department, 
and Supt. of Fire Alarm. Office of Newport Electric 
Light Company. 

179 Thames Street, Second Floor, 

NEWPORT, R. I. 



IS OFFERED ON THE 

St. George's Heights Plat, 

To first-class parties wishing to secure a home, 
or for investment, near Arlington and Olney- 
ville. Easy access to horse cars and steam cars. 
The highest and best plat of land ever offered 
for sale so near Providence. Call on 

CHAS. 0. BEMETT or H. C. PIERCE, 

176 Broad Street. 





ies 



Balsamine For Burns, Bruises, Rheumatism. 

Cough and Lung Balsam For Coughs, Colds, Etc. 
Malaria Cure, Guaranteed to Cure. 

Strengthening Porous Plasters Best in Use. 

Dr. Stevens' Cond. Powders For Horses and Cattle. 
Beef, Iron and Wine For General Debility, Etc 
Sarsaparilla Compound For Blood Purifier, Etc. 

GEO, A. PECKHAM, Prop'r, 22 & 24 Peck St., Providence, R. I. 

^STYLES' TROY STEAM LAUNDRY,* 

21, 23 and 25 Chapel Street, Providence, R. I. 

Largest and best equipped Steam Laundry in the State. Shirts, Collars and Cuffs a Specialty. 
Goods called for and delivered. No chloride of lime used. Telephone connection. Parties out of 
town sending goods by mail or express will receive prompt attention. 



ilMxe ® Sakonnet.! 




LOCATION. The new Hotel, The Sakonnet, opened June 18, 1888, stands on a bluff on Sakonnet Point, Little Conipton, 
R. I. Jutting out into the Atlantic on one side, and the Sakonnet River on the other, the Point is unsurpassed for graid 
and striking scenery, even amid a country famed as the finest in the state, and abounding in beautiful drives by forest, field 
and ocean. 

A broad veranda extends entirely around the house, affording shade at all hours. From it may be seen the. grounds, 
extending to the water's edge, the surf breaking on the rocks almost at the very door, the arrival and departure of the 
steamer not far away, and vessels passing near or out at sea. Facilities for surf or still-water bathing, also for boating and 
fishing are excellent. _ , _,. 

ACCOMMODATION'S. The house contains 26 rooms, 15 of which are lodging rooms. On the first floor are Parlor, Sit- 
ting Room and two Dining-Rooms, each commanding a fine view of the ocean : a dressing room containing set bowls, etc., 
besides the Office, Kitchen and Butler's Pantry. The second floor consists of Bedrooms, ten in number, connected with the 
Office by Electric Bells. They are all light and airy, and overlook the ocean. A bath-room with all conveniences is on this 
floor, supplied, as is the Dressing-Room below, with hot and cold water. The third story contains five lodging rooms. 

The table will be provided with fresh eggs, milk, butter, poultry, and vegetables from the farmers in the vicinity. 

Horses and carriages for driving and accommodations for those owned by the guests maybe had. 

MEANS OF ACCESS. The Steamer Queen City leaves Providence and Sakonnet daily as per advertisement, except 
Sunday, connecting at Tiverton station with trains for Boston. Providence, and Newport. Carriages to and from trains 
can be furnished if desired. The steamer's landing is about a minute's walk from the house: her landing in Providence 
is very central. 
All communications should be addressed to J. L. SLOCUM, Box 1 ,034-, Providence, R. I. 



STEAMER 



QUEEN C/m 



^A- 



r»~» 



VV.VVVXJVV 



Makes Daily Trips from Providence to Seaconnet Point, from May 1st 
to Oct. 1st, and balance of year Tri- Weekly. 



^HE sail down Narragansett Bay by this line is unsurpassed. Leaving the heat and dust of 
>•/ Providence behind, you are soon on the clear bright water, which wends its way to the ocean. 

The cottages of the summer residents dot the shore on either side as you pass Silver Spring, 
Riverside and Nayatt on the one side, and Pawtuxet, Long Meadow, and Rocky Point on the other. 
After passing Nayatt, Warren comes in sight; then Bristol and Fall River. Sailing up Mt. Hope 
Bay, you pass Mt. Hope, celebrated in the early history of the state. After turning the northern 
extremity of the island of Rhode Island, you enter Seaconnet River and pass through the two 
bridges, and a short sail takes you by Fogland Point, and out where you can feel the gentle swell of 
the ocean, and soon arriving at Seaconnet Point where ample time is allowed for getting dinner, 
and for a drive or a bath. 



PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 



U.S. GUTTAPERCHA PAINT 



Dries with a Beautiful and Permanent Gloss, 

is Waterproof, and for all purposes where a Deco- 
rative or Preservative coating- is desired.it is the 
Handsomest, Best, Most Durable, and 
Economical Paint in the World. 



"H. P." RESTORATIVE OIL, 



Unequaled for use on exterior painted surfaces which have faded 
or lost their brilliancy of color; also for coating over stained 
shingles, hard wood or grained outside doors so as to leave a dura- 
ble, glossy finish. 



SPECIALTIESIN PAINTS CoverinK a lar * e "S^SSSSSKf TBMALS ased 

For particulars address 

U. S. GUTTA PERCHA PAINT CO., 

J. WILLIAM RICE, Pres. and Gen'l Manager, 
p. ^^-w^o^^ta^^^^jita^tun," l31> 133 & 135 Mathewson St., Providence, R. I. 

What Cheep House 

c-aBULLOCK'S ••• POINTx 

r T"*HE above house is located six miles from Providence, and it is a charming place to 
1 spend a little time by the sea-shore. The house will accommodate one hundred 
and fifty guests, and is conducted on the American plan, from $1.00 to $1.50 per day. 

Connected with the house is a beautiful Pine Grove and a splendid Beach for Bathing ; 
also a Dance Hall, the music for which is furnished by Vaughn's Orchestra. 

Genuine Rhode Island Shore Dinners served daily, and a liberal discount from regular 
rates given to Sunday Schools and other Societies. 

TOBOGGAN SLIDE, FLYING HORSES, BOAT SWINGS, 

AND OTHER AMUSEMENTS. 

J. E. WOODWARD, Proprietor. 

IRA WINSOR & CO., 

MANUFACTURERS OP AND DEALERS IN 

STEM, GAS, 11 WATER F1TTK, 

OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. 

JS'TE^JVI HE^ATIIVG A^JPARATXJ^ 

For Public Buildings, Private Dwellings, Etc. Steam, Gas and 

Water Piping in all its Branches. Brass Finishing, 

Steam Gauges Tested and Repaired. 

122 Dorrance Street, - Providence, R. L 



PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 





The Fetirag@ia SMri M%. C@ 

A. A. BEATTlE, Proprietor. 

(Late with SAMUEL BUDD, New York.) 

r [ r !Custom and Dress Shirts 

A MPBCIAIiXT. 

146 WESTMINSTER STREET, - Wilkinson Building 

Providence, R. I. 

Orders Attended to at Customer's Office or Residence. 



•» 




PROVIDENCE 

DENTA L PARLORS 

Di^. E. William Bowe. Dentist. 

188 Westminster St., Cor. Union, Room 5. 

PROVIDENCE, R. I. 
Formerly Aasoeiate Dentist of Dr. W. W. BRIDUE. 



Wsi> JL> *Sli®sit® ^ ©i 



%) 



.Successors to C. F. «fc J. M. Hull. 



Gnntracfops and Builders. 

Mill Building a Specialty. 

65 Westminster Street, Room 24, 

W. A. Chapman. / -r\ • i t\ t 

^-J^SSS^l Providence, R.I. 



P. O. BOX 73&. 



Thomas Mabbett, 



Manufacturer of 



GAS NETTING, BURRING, 

Custom Work Solicited. 

36 BACON STREET, 
Providence, I£» I* 

LINDSAY ANDERSON, 

LADIES' AND GENTLEMEN'S 




JVo. 21 Westminster Street, 



Manufacturers of 

:l,eather ® Belts, 

LOOM STRAPS, PICKERS, Etc. 

Special Attention paid to Repairing, and Putting On and Taking Up Main Belts. Roll Covering for Woolen Machinery a 
' Specialty. 

OFFICE AND HMUFAGTORT : 37 & 39 CHARLES STREET, PROVIDENCE, R. I. 
patent folded twist belting. 




THE BEST ROUiND BELT IN THE WORLD. | SOLE MANUFACTURERS. 



PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 



CAMPBELL & CO., 

Bicycles ! Safeti es ! Tricycles ! 

Tandems, Stars, New Rapids, Quadrants. 

BICYCLE REPAIRING AX REASONABLE PRICES. 



8WNBBIE8, SECOND-HAND WHEELS. 

99 Orange Street, Providence, R. I. 

BICYCLE REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. 

W. H. DOUGHTY & CO., 

Manufacturers of and Dealers in 




We use the best cream in the manufacture of our Ice Cream, no cheap stock used* 
Large or small orders delivered at short notice. Sunday orders a specialty. 
Sweet Cream constantly on hand. This season we supply Oakland 
Beach and Field's Point with our Cream. 

Price off the team or at the Creamery, 40 cents per quart. 
Price when delivered and packed, 50 cents per quart; $1.50 per 
Gallon; Large Orders, $1.25. Dishes and Spoons Free of Charge. 

WT. H. DOUGHTY «£s CO., 

NO. 79 FIFIELD AVENUE, PROVIDENCE, R. I. 

TELEPHONE, 20S-6. 



PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 




ESTABLISHED 1848. 



Atwood, Crawford & Co. 



-Manufacturers of- 



iSPOOLS; 



For Cotton and Linen Thread, Machine Twist, Train and Sewing; Silk. 
Silk and Thread SPOOLS Printed in Colors. 

Braider Spinning and Twister Bobbins. 

FANCY TURNING, Etc. 



ABNER ATWOOD. 

C. FRED. CRAWFORD. 

JOHN H. CRAWFORD. 



TELEPHONE 4524-2. 




We make a specialty of Worsted Aprons, and Worsted Roll Covering Leather for Worsted 

Machinery. We also Manufacture a first-class Oak-tanned Leather Belt made from the best 

selected Hides, also a Belt for Electric Light Machinery, some of which are in use in 

many of the large plants in this country. Our brand is the "Lion's Head," which 

is well known and extensively used in all parts of the United States, as 

is proved by our large sales and rapidly increasing business. 

CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. 



R. A. BUTLER, 

Telegraph Address, Pawtucket. CENTRAL FALLS, R. I. 



E. G. BLODGETT, President. E. W. ORSWELL, Treasurer. 

BLODGETT & ORSWELL CO., 

Manufacturers and Importers of 

fiNEjfi lazed] Y arns) 

AND SPOOL COTTON. 

SPECIALTY : 

Glazed Yarus in all Numbers and Colors, Domestic and 

Foreign, for Manufacturers of Ribbons 

and Bindings. 

64 Broad St., and 75 East Ave., Pawtucket, R. I. 



COLE BROS. 

BEAMING and CHAINING MACHINES 

- ■ — FOR 

Long and Short Chain System 

For Fancy Goods, Such as Ginghams, Etc. 
ALSO 

DYE WORKS MACHINERY, 

PAWTUCKET, R. L 

TELEPHONE 4704-4. 



PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 



FAISBSOTISBS BBIrTIHG CO. 

LEWIS FAIRBROTHER, Treasurer. INCORPORATED 1888. 

The b' 'use w:»s established in 1834, by the Hon. Lewis Fairbrother, who commenced business in a building 
measuring about thirty feet by fifteen. He had learned the art of tanning in Attleboro, Mass., and began 
businsep in Pawtucket, R. I .then only a small village, with only one Vat, making Picker and Lace Leather. 
A few years later he entered upon the manufacture of Leather Belting and other kinds of Leather for 
factory uses. Purchasing the hides, he tanned and finished them lor various purposes as stated. He has 
contributed largely to the development of the citv of Pawtucket and the State. 

In 1H55 he w,is elected representative to the General Assembly, and again in 1856, serving two years as 
Chairman of the House Committee on Corporations. In 1857 he was elected to the State Senate, and re-elected 
in 1J-58, 1859 and 1SG0, and again in 1864, here, as in the House, serving all the time as Chairman of tbe Committee 
on Corporations. For many years be was Agent for the management of the Providence and Pawtucket 
Turnpike, and set many of the trees on that thoroughfare, and for one season had the track watered. In the 
erection of the solid stone Bridge at Pawtucket Falls, by order of the State of Rhode Island and the Towns of 
North Providence and Pawtucket in 1858. he was Chairman of the Commissioners. During the Rebellion, 
besides otherwise aiding the Union cause, he was the Committee of the Town for distributing thousands of 
dollars for the relief and comfort of the families of the soldiers, aiding about a hundred and fifty families. 
He was president of the Slater Bank (now the Slater National Bank) at its organization and for many years 
after. In the old North Providence Bank he was a director, and is now a director in the Slat r Cotton 
Company. In 18«6 he was appointed by the State an Inspector of the State Prison, and served in that office 
eleven years. In every position in life he has been valued for his talents, stability, judgment and faithfulness. 
His son Henry L , on reaching maturity, was received by him as partner in business, and remained interested 
in the business until his demise in 1886. Coming as he did from noble ancestors, he was a noble scion of the 
house oi Fairbrother. In politics he was conservative; in business, he was honorable and honored; to the 
humble poor he was charitable, as thousands can testify who now honor his beloved memory. This is the 
oldest Lea r her Belting Establishment in Rhode sland, and the oldest in the United States, save one in Massa- 
chusetts where Mr. Lewis Fairbrother learned the art of Tanning. 

ROBERT D. MASON & CO, 

BLEACH ERS m DYERS 

of 

Spool Threads, Knitting Cotton, Cords, Braids, Tapes, and all kinds of Single and Two- 
ply Yarns, Indigo Blues and Fast Black, for Milling Purposes. 

Also WOOLEN and WORSTED YARNS and RRAIDS nf Every Description. 
75 EAST AVENUE. - - PAWTUCKET, R. I. 

ALI, GOODS IN PROCESS INSURED AGAINST LOSS BV FIRE. 

^•[^xcelsio^ 1^001*1 |\eed yyoR^s,^- 

Patentees and Sole Manufacturers of Adamson's 

Elastic Action Loom Reed. 



PATENTED APRIL 14, 1885. 

MADE WITH IMPROVED BEVEL-CORNERED DENTS. 
THESE are the BEST REEDS for WEAVING COTTON, WOOLEN and WORSTED FABRICS. 

N. B —These reeds are constructed upon an entirely new principle, the wires having an elastic action, result- 
ing from the way the reeds are constructed, which gives perfect and permanent uniformity of the dent spaces, 
thereby obviating "Streaky Good*," a source of so much anxiety and loss that we feel we do not claim too 
much for these Reeds when we say that more than the entire reed bill is saved by the improved quality of 
goods produced, as no goods need be classed as •'Secouds" where these Reeds are used. 

ioS Broad CH,, Wmwim€hm% 1, 1. 
Telephone 4328-5. EDWARD ADAMSON, Proprietor. 

JOHN W. PERRY, 

Builder of all Kinds of 

Ex jpr*e> s » ^V^ agons , 

Large Stock of Express, Tip Carts and Farm Wagons Constantly on Hand. 
Nos 308 to 312 MILL STREET, — *>>t<(*— CENTRAL FALLS, R. I. 



PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 



J. Truman Burdick. 



H. R. Stober. 



J. Truman Burdick & Co., 

-*!ReaI*Esfeate,i*- 



All business relating to 
the Sale, Rental, Insur- 
ance, Care or Improve- 
ment of Real Estate, care- 
fully attended to. 




Agents of EDWARD 
BURGESS, Yacht De- 
signer and Naval Archi- 
tect. 



FRANKLIN AND SPRING STREETS, NEWPORT, R, I. 

ESTABLISHED 1850. 



(Successor to ISAAC I.AVVTON,) 

Dealer in 



r\rc:B»H, «iviorc:E>:D ^vivd ^vjl/t 




•-* 



OF ALL KINDS. 



OYSTERS, CLAMS, LOBSTERS, 
QIMHAUG*. 



22 & 24 LONG WHARF, NEWPORT, R. 



CLARENCE A. HAMMETT, 

323 Thames Street, Newport, R. I., 

Opposite Post-Office. 

Wit EOTTE 

AND 

FIN^NCI^Ii^6EP 

Deeds, Mortgages, Contracts, and all Papers 
Neatly and Accurately Drawn. 

Insurance Risks Placed with the Best Companies. 



CBAPS T. STEP, 

Dealer in 

TOBACCO and CIGARS, 

NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, Etc. 
No. 42 Washington Square, Newport, R. I. 



PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 



Bray ton Houtse, 

38 and 44 Pelham St., 

N i:\vport, R. I. 



Strictly l'irsi-( hiss. 
Local ion Unexcelled 



Select Boarding for Families or Single Persons. 

This House is not Kept as a Tavern. 
Special Rates to Commercial Travelers. 
No efforts will be spared to please all who may 
apply. 
Winter Boarding Engaged at Moderate Rates. 



OPEN ALL THE YEAR. 

Apply on the premise!! or through P. O. Box 510. 

G. A. HAZARD. J. W. HORTON. 

HAZARD & HORTON, 

(Successors to J. I,. & G. A. Hazard,) 

Manufacturers of 

F'F FURNITURE. 

Also, Dealers iu 

Modern and Antique Furniture. 

Mattresses and Spring- Beds made to order. Furniture 
Recovered. Mattresses made over. Curtains and Shades 
made and put up. Mantels made to order. Original De- 
signs for Furniture and Mantels. Repairing Antique and 
other Furniture. 

FURNITURE and CROCKERY PACKED and SHIPPED. 
42 Church St., Neivport, R. X. 



George W. Flagg, 

room4^ 301 1-2 THAMES ST. 

BANKER. 

Stock, Note, Real Estate, Mortgage-and Business Broker. 

Stocks, Bonds, Grain, Provisions and Petroleum bought 
and sold for cash or carried on margin. 

Real Estate bought and sold. Notes, Mortgages, and 
Business places negotiated. 

Private wire to New York and Chicago. 

Newport, Providence and Fall River local stocks on sale. 

on all kinds of personal property, also assignment of police- 
men's and firemen's wages. Notary public. 






transient jjjoard, 

392 Thames Street, 

Three minutes' walk from Post-Office. 

MRS. B. S. LEWIS, - Prop. 

TERMS $5 TO $7 PER WEEK. 



mmt Hotel, 

S. T. HUBBARD, Proprietor. 

119 and 121 Thames Street, NEWPORT, R. I. 



@Jirj&f-d>Pq/y ^.e&fauranf. 



BEST of Table Board at Reasonable Rates. 

Ladies and Gentlemen from out of town 

will find this a comfortable place to 

rest and get their meals. 

J. I, BMAIMEir, 




CFINfl, GR8CKEKY, and emisjs. 

NOVELTIES and FANCY GOODS. 
203 Thames Street, - NEWPORT, R. I. 

SOUVENIRS A SPECIALTY. 



rERMANIA HOTEL 

^^ NEWPOKT, It- I. 



FOOT OF DOWNING ST., NEAR BELLEVUE A VKSITE. 

E. HOLZINGER, Proprietor. 

$2 PER DAY. 12 ROOMS. 

W^WW pengE 

10 1-2 FRANKLIN ST., opp. post-office. 

PERMANENT * and x TRANSIENT * BOARDING, 

RATES, $1.50 per Day. 
RANDALL ATWATER, Proprietor. 

Benjamin Bliven, 



'Blacksmith 




) 

MB- AM. ©F 0>Cf?AXC 1QUSE, 

Weaver Avenue, - Newport, R. I. 

All kinds of Carriage Work, House Smithing 
and Bridge Work. 

HORSE SHOEING A SPECIALTY. 

All kinds of Steel Forging and Country Work in General, 
at prices to suit the times. 

All work done with neatness and dispatch. 




EW ENGLAND CONSERVATORYofMUSIC 

Franklin Square, Boston, Mass. 





Coi/5epT0^oFJV\usic 

JfaqkliyStpre Boston 



OLDEST IN AMERICA. 

Has the largest and best equipped conservatory building in the world; the broadest curriculum of 
study; employs the ablest corps of teachers, and instructs the largest number of students. 

The educational advantages of the Conservatory are grouped under the following schools : 



A School for the Piano 

A School for the Organ. 

A School for Singing, Formation and 

and Cultivation of the Voice, Lyric Art, 

and Opera. 
A School for Violin, Quartet, and 

Ensemble Playing, Orchestral and Band 

Instruments and Conducting. 
A School for Harmony, Composition, 

Theory and Orchestration. 
A School for Church Music, Oratorio, 

and Chorus. 



8. 

9- 
10. 
li. 



A School for Training Music Teachers 

for Public Schools, etc. 
A School for Tuning Pianos and Organs. 
A School for Physical Culture. 
A College of Music. 
A School for Common and Higher 
English Branches, Latin, Italian, Ger- 
man and French Languages. 
A School of Elocution and Dramatic 
Action. 

A School of Fine Arts. 
A Home for its Lady Pupils. 



Instruction is given by ablest American and European artists and teachers, class and private lessons. 

Students in any one school have the free advantages of all the schools, such as concerts, 
recitals, sight-singing and chorus practice, lectures, readings, etc., also use of large musical library. 
3X8THE HOME is located in the heart of Boston, confessedly the musical, literary, and artistic 
centre of America. The beautiful park in front and the surrounding broad streets make it both 
healthful and delightful. It is splendidly equipped for both home and the schools, furnishing 
home accommodations for five hundred lady students, and class accommodations for three thousand 
lady and gentlemen students. It is supervised by the Director, Preceptress, Resident Physician, 
and Lady Teachers. The entire building is heated by steam and lighted by electricity. Opportu- 
nities here offered not surpassed by any similar institution in the world. 

Tuition: $5, $10, $15, $20 and $25 per term. Board and Rooms $5 to $7.50 per week. 

Fall Term begins September 13, 1888. 

Beautifully Illustrated Calendar giving full information, sent free on application to 



E. TOURJEE, Director. 



PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 



A. C. Sibley, 

Manufacturer of DOORS, SASH, BLINDS, PACKING BOXES, CLOTH BOARDS, 

MOULDINGS, Etc. Planing, Sawing, Band and Jig Sawing. 

Turning and Jobbing of all kinds. Shingle 



and Saw Mill. 



NO. 60 POND ST., 



WOONSOCKET, R. I 



What Cheer Cottage, 



^^IgqiSpiii ^ ,y,( 



ROGER WILLIAMS PARK, 




Open every day during the Season. 

Horse Cars every 5 minutes, via 

Elmwood and South 

Providence. 

^ Telephone Connection at the Park 

and at East Providence. 



JAMES W. COOPER, 

Roger Williams Park, 

* providence, R. 1.^ 

Ice Cream Manufactory, Broadway, East Providence, R. I. 



James W. Cooper having leased this Cottage for a term of years, is now ready to 
cater to Parties, Sunday Schools, Private Picnics, Etc. The cottage is furnished with spacious 
parlors, large airy dining-room, cool piazzas, where one can enjoy a glass of Cream while 
overlooking the lake, or the beautiful grounds surrounding the Cottage. 

8^" Evening Parties solicited throughout the year. Church Fairs, Festivals, Etc., 
furnished with Ice Cream, Cake, Strawberries, Etc. Arrangements for such may be made 
by addressing as above. 



PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 



Geo.F.Yoang&Bro. 



-Dealers in- 



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Gigais m ToDacco 



-^r-— , , x^Goocooooacci 



-m&ssm' tsmvKF&Mt* 



Up and Up, La Rubia, 

AND 

ARBITRATOR CIGARS. 

1 and 9 Westminster Street, 

PROVIDENCE, R. I. 



T. J. FALES, 
SAIL MAKER. 

Manufacturer of 

French, Store and Italian Awnings, Trunk and Wagon Covers. 



N. B. YOUNG. 




Tents JVItiLCle to Order. 

Boat and Yacht Sails a Specialty. 

2 PLANET ST., COR. SOUTH WATER, 

PROVIDENCE, R. I. 



CHAMBERS, CALDER & CO., 






+£«♦ 



Chemicals, Dyewoods, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Window Glass, Etc. 

Agents for JEWETT & SONS WHITE LEAD AND OIL. 

11 & 12 EXCHANGE PLACE, PROVIDENCE, R. I. 



Robert B. Chambers. 



Geo. B. Calder. 



Wm. H. Ballou. 



@LB BWTT@MWB®B® W&U8E. 

Opens for the reception of guests June 27. People seeking- board should visit this place, as it is unexcelled for health 
and all the comforts of the Seaside and a Country Home. The House is situated within a few feet of the bay which 
affords the finest of Bathing, Boating, and Fishing. Terms as low as any House on the Shore. Old-fashioned Clam-bakes. 

Good Stable accommodations for Horses. 



Post-OHice Address, Box 79, Apiionaus, K. I. 



A. HOPKINS, Proprietor. 



IB. S. BTJFFIlsrTOlsr, 

Manufacturer of X J^jLL JliXV I >( ) A PiS oiEver y DescTi P tl 



Railroad Avenue, "Warren, R. I. 

All goods delivered free of charge in Boston. Providence, Attleboro, Taunton, Fall River, and other Southern 

Cities of New England. 



PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 



WIND ENGINES 

For PUMPING 

or 

POWER. 

m WRITE 

^w^^'Tl US 
YOUR 
WANTS 

We can furnish complete out- 
'fits to supply water for Domestic 
se or small villages, also complete 
loutfits to furnish power for farm 
anil shop use. Farm- 
I era can do all their 
I Pumping, Grinding, 
[Shelling, Feed Cutting, 
Wood Sawing, Ac, with , 
Wind Power— SatisfaetionUuaranteed. 
The Celebrated 

BUCKEYE PUMPS 
Force or Lift, 

for wells of any depth. 200,000 now 
in use, is a guarantee of their excell- 
ence. The largest stock of Wood, 
Iron, Copper & Brass Pumps 
in New England. 

fW Over 300 Varieties in stock. 
Drive -well materials & water 
supply goods of every descrip- 
tion. No trouble to answer questions 
»nd quote prices. Correspondence 
solicited. 

MAST, FOOS & CO., 

27 Wendell St. near Oliver, Boston, Mass. 





VS. W. JHD/KDS 8c ®0. 

PROPRIETORS OF 

KELLOGG'S 
flavoring 

EXTRACTS. 






Olives, 

Btc. 

Manufactory and Salesroom: 

280 DOVER ST., BOSTON, MASS. 

We desire to call speoial attention to the brand 
of OLIVES bearing our name, as we claim 
that their equal cannot be found. 



(ft <§j^^$^ *v— 

IflAKLAND 



IIeach. 



THE MOST DELIGHTFUL and PICTURESQUE SHORE RESORT on the BAY. 



CLAM DINNERS SERVED 

EACH DAY, SUNDAYS INCLUDED. 

/§> M0NG THE MANY ATTRACTIONS IS THE 

@Squatic toboggan, <a 

The first ever invented, consisting of boats sliding down a long inclined plane into the lake at 
lightning speed, affording an exciting amusement, perfectly safe. 

The Dickinson Brothers Orchestra, five pieces, will furnish music for the season. Dancing free 
in a cool hall situated within a few feet of the bay. 

The finest beach in Rhode Island for bathing. 

A large number of boats will be placed in the lake which is unsurpassed for beauty and safety. 

Westminster Musee Menagerie, open free to all for the season. 

Special arrangements for Societies, Sunday Schools and private parties. 



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J. I. 



PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 
Fall Hivep and Providence Steamboat Company. 



BLOCK ISLAND EXCURSIONS. 



SEASON @r 1888, 



SJEAMER MOUNT HOPE, 




Built by Montgomery & Howard, of Chelsea, Mass., (builders of the famous Steamers " City of Fall River " and "City of 
Brockton,"i under the supervision of Mr. George Pierce, Supervisor of the Old Colony Steamboat Co., "Fall River Line." 
Machinery by W. & A. Fletcher Co., New York. 

Extreme length, 200 feet; width, M4 feet ; width over guards, 62 feet ; depth of hold, 12 feet. Engine:— Diameter of cylin- 
der. 46 inch; stroke of piston, 10 feet ; feathering wheels. 

The MOUNT HOPE is licensed to carry 2,000 passengers in the river service, and 1,300 in the outside service ; is equipped 
with four metallic life boats ; two life rafts ; 2,000 block-cork life preservers and six ring buoys. 

THREE PULL LENGTH DECKS. 

Leading from the Main Deck is the Ladies' Cabin, beautifully upholstered and arranged with all the modern appli- 
ances for comfort and convenience. The Purser's Office is on the port side, also a coat or parcel room, arranged to re- 
ceive small articles, wraps, etc. On the starboard side is the Gents' Wash Room and a new feature on Excursion Steam- 
ers—a Barber Shop. From the Main Deck leading to the Promenade Deck is an elegant Mahogany Stairway enlarged and 
beautified by an immense plate glass Mirror, 51-2 feet by 6 feet, which stands in a recess at the head of the landing. 
Forward from this deck is another Grand Stairway leading from the Saloon to the Main Deck. Opening from the Sa- 
loon is ten (10) State Rooms, or cosy sitting rooms, all nicely furnished with Toilet Apparatus. Couches, Chairs and 
Electric Call Bells, all arranged to give a home-like appearance. From the Saloon or Promenade Deck is two stairways 
leading to the Upper or Hurricane Deck. From this deck the view is unobstructed. Nothing appears but the Pilot House 
and upper part of the Engine. All is carefully guarded by a netting rail both around the sides of the boat and around 
the engine. On this deck are the Life Boats and Rafts. 

The Main Deck and Promenade Deck extend from stem to stern. The Hurricane Deck from stern to front of Pilot 
House. The Main Deck is arranged with seats around the sides and the Saloon around sides, ends and centres, all in 
Black Walnut. The Saloon Deck outside, and Hurricane Deck, is also seated the ent r • length and width of the boat ; and 
the entire seating capacity, with the 1,500 all new Brussels covered Camp Stools, is at least 500 in excess of number of pas- 
sengers allowed the steamer. 

The boat is thorough and complete in all parts, is the largest carrying steamer of her length ever launched, was built 
especially tor the outside excursion service, and is also very fast, averaging 16 miles an hour from Boston to Fall River in 
a northeast storm and on her trial trip. 

Commencing Saturday, June 30, this Palatial Steamer will make Excursions from 

PROVIDENCE AND NEWPORT 
< BLOCK > "<ISLAND> 

EVERY TUESDAY AND SATURDAY, AND FROM PROVIDENCE ONLY EVERY SUNDAY, 

Leave Providence Tuesdays and Saturdays at i) A. M., and Newport at tO.4.3 A. M. Leave 
Providence Sundays at lO A. M. Returning, leave Block Island at 3 P. 31., on all Days. 



Excursion Tickets, Providence and Block Island, $1.00. Newport, 75 cents. 

CHILDREN UNDER 12 YEARS, HALF PRICE. 



D. C. LAWTON, act. and treas. 



T. H. BROWNELL, supt. 




The DELAVAN 



^NARRAGANSETT PIER, R. I> 



J. O. CHANDLER, Proprietor. 
-| SEASON 1888. I 



Enters upon its Third Season under the management of its present proprietor. 

o^TIHIIE TABLED 

WILL BE SUPPLIED WITH THE BEST THERE IS IN THE MARKET. 

T he Post Office, Casino and Bathing Beach are only about three minutes' walk from the House. 
The proprietor wishes to thank those who so liberally patronized him last season and hopes by 

studying the comfort of his guests to merit a continuance of the same. 

The Pier is reached from New York via the Shore Line Railroad or by the steamer to Stoning- 

ton, thence by rail to the Pier, or by Steamer to Newport, from Newport by Steamer. 

From Providence and Boston by the Old Colony and New York, 

Providence and Boston Railroads. 

The Water Used in the House is From the Gladstone Spring. 



TERMS, #3-5° p ER DAY 
HOUSE LIGHTED BY ELECTRICITY. SUITABLE ARRANGEMENTS BY THE SEASON. 

J. O. CHANDLER, Proprietor. 
^^OOTTAGS TO LET.^^ 



NARRAGANSETT PIER 

HAYSB4T1HNI Mil 

FROM 

NEWPORT to NEW YORK, 

Via Narragansett Pier, 
Coinmencing June 25, 1888. 



SfB&lISl 

HERMAN S. CASWELL, 

LEAVES 

Newport for New York at 7. 15, 10.00 A. m. 

and 2. co p. m., arriving in New York. 

at 3.30, 4.30 and 11.00 p. m. 



Local Time-Table. 
Newport and Narragansett Pier. 

Leaves Newport at 7.15 and 10.00 A. m., 
2.00 and 5.15 p.m. I., aves Narra- 
gansett Pier 8.30 and 11.40 A. m., 
3.15 and 6.30 p. m. 

Regular Fare, 50c 

Round Trip, 75c. 

J. C. TUCKER, JR., Agent. 



NARRAGANSETT PIER AND NEWPORT R.R. 

To Narragansett Pier and Newport. 

[June 25, 1888.] 



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PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 



TOE BflMQaS SBMSrBE RBS8RT, 

Peninsula House 

WATCH HILL, R. I. 



Permanent or Transient board by the Day or Week, on easy terms. Shore Dinners served daily 
at short notice, with a Genuine Rhode Island Clam Bake. Fine Bowling Alley and Dance Hall ; also, 
Boating, Fishing and Bathing on the Best Beach on the New England Coast. Terms sent on appli- 
cation. 



COLUMBIA HOUSE, 

GEO. I. HOLLAND, JR., Proprietor. 

NEWLY FURNISHED THROUGHOUT. 



Located at Columbia Corner, in the most central part 
of the village, and within five minute's walk of the 
depot and one minute's walk of Public Hall. Board 
by the Day or Week at Reasonable Rates. We make 
a specialty of pleasing- our guests. Try us. 



211 and 213 Main Street, 



Wakefield, K. 



Stable in Connection. 



J. EVANS & SON, 

HEMIITTIILIM. 



A Fine Line of Woolens always in stock, of For- 
eign and Domestic manufacture. 

All Work Guaranteed. Prices to suit all. 

No. 8 Broad .Street, Pawtucket, II. I. 

JOHN EVANS. JOHN M. EVANS. 



J. STEVENS ARMS AND TOOL CO. 

F\ O. Box 65, 

CHICOPEE FALLS, MASS. 



MANUFACTURERS OF THE 



STEVENS PATENT BREECH LOADING, SPORTING, AND HUNTER'S PET RIFLE, 
SINGLE AND DOUBLE SHOT GUNS AND POCKET RIFLES. 

The best scores on record in America, from 10 to 50 yards, have been made with Stevens Pistol. 



STEVENS TARGET PISTOL. 

Known throughout the world as possessing unsurpassed accuracy, 1 
perfection of form and finish. The professional shots all unhesita- 
tingly select the Stevens Pistols to perform the most difficult feats 
of marksmanship. 

STEVENS GALLERY PISTOLS. 

"Conlin" Model, 10 inch barrel, .22 cal., weight, 2 r-8 pounds. 

"Lord" Model, 10 inch barrel, .22 cal., weight, 3 pounds. Tj 

"Diamond" Model, 10 inch barrel, .22 cal., weight.n ounces. 
Also, the new 6 inch barrel, .22 cal., Target Pistol. The new 6 inch '.barrel Stevens 
Pistol is carried by those who desire compactness and lightness combined with the 
greatest accuracy. Send for our large, 52 page, Illustrated Catalogue. 




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PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 




ESTABLISHED 1873. 



ay State Electrotype foundry. , 

L. W. ROGERS, Proprietor. 

BOOK I JOB Will 

Of All Descriptions 

Finished in Best Manner, Blocked on Wood or Metal. 

Fine Cut Work a Specialty. 

AMONG THE BOOKS KLECTKOTVPED IN 1887, ARE 

ENOCH ARDEN. E. P. DUTTON & CO., New York. 

BUNCH OF VIOLETS. LEE & SHEPARD, Boston. 

SONG OF THE RIVER. ESTES & LAUPJAT, Boston. 

Composition, Process, and Wood Engraving for Electrotyping. Metal Plates for Engravers. 

10*5 X>e>vorx;slxir'e and SO Arcli 8ts., Boston. 

PLEASE SEND FOR ESTIMATES. 




Tbe Oldest and Largest Roller Casting Establishment in New England. 

E^statolistiecl 1859. 



nW & STEVENS, 

^NXaiixxJctiLctvi.r'er'ftij of 

Printers' Rollers, 



"58 



And Roller Compositions. 
No. 148 CONGRESS STREET, - - BOSTON, MASS. 

Our Compositions are made from the best materials, and are of the finest qual- 
ity. Samples sent upftn application. Rollers for every style of press supplied 
promptly at reasonable rates. 




PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 



A. Crov^ell St Co., 

MANUFACTURERS OF 

IRON MS&, RAILICS, SITTERS. 

Machine and Tool F orgin gs IVIade to Order. 

JEWELERS' AND SILVERSMITHS' D IES, CUT TERS, TOOLS, ETC., A SPECIALTY. 

161 Eddy St., Providence, R. I. 

Standard Patent Gold Watcli 

=jCASESl= 

AisriD 

SOLIDMERWATCHCASES 

without exception, the best in the world. 

Don't be cajoled into buying the poorer cases with which 

the market is flooded by the assertion that they are just as 

good. They are not, and every honest dealer will tell you so. 

For sale by the best retail jewelers and watch makers only. 

MANUFACTURED BY 

The Ladd Watch Case Company, 

OF PROVIDENCE, R. I. 

OFFICE, 11 DVC^ID EIIST Xj^^TJ£! 7 USTIETW YORK. 

^SUMMERS COOKING* 



Oas Raiagreisi ! Oas Stoves ! 

FOR SALE OR LEASE, 
No. 13 Westminster Street, Providence, R. I. 

NO KINDLING, NO COAL, NO OIL, NO LABOR, 

NO ASHES, NO SMOKE, NO DUST, NO ODOR. 

Stoves delivered and Ranges Set without extra charge by 

PROVIDENCE GAS CO. 





PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT 




FOOD 



fMPEPJAL GRANUM, TV. C. TVile, M- D., in the New England Medical Monthly, January, 1888— "In 
the delicate conditions of the stomach, when every thing else has been rejected I have saved many 
lives by giving Imperial Grandm. I consider this as one of the very best foods the physician can 
find to assist him in carrying through his patient to recovery ; and I have found it of inestimable value in 
the later stages of Phthisis, Gastritis, Gastric Catarrh, Dyspepsia and Dysentery. It requires little effort of 
the stomach to digest, and I have never known it to be rejected if properly prepared, given in small 
quantities and at frequent intervals. The great care used in its manufacture will lead the physician to 
expect the same product all the time, and we can assure him that he will never be disappointed, as we 
have fully tested it in our extended experience." 

TVe speak from experience when we say that the Imperial Granum is both safe and nutritious. It 
has been on the market for many years, and the largely increasing sales show that many others have found 
like results attending its use. — The Christian Union, N. T. 

As a Medicinal Food Imperial Granum, which is simply a solid extract from very superior growths of 
wheat, is unexcelled. It is easy of digestion, is not constipating, and is to-day the Standard Dietetic 
preparation for invalids, for the aged, and for the very young. — North American Journal of Homoeopathy, 
N. Y, Dec, '87. 

Imperial Grantjm has now been before the public for many years, and is generally admitted to be a 
standard preparation. There can be no doubt that this is due to its uniformly superior quality, and the 
successful results obtained with it in all cases where an artificial food is required. — Popular Science News, 
Boston, February, '88. 

" Imperial Granum. — A neighbor's child being very low, reduced, in fact, to a mere baby skeleton 
from want of nourishment, as nothing could be found which the child could retaiu, at the urgent request of 
friends the parents were induced to try Imperial Granum, which proved such a benefit to the child it 
grew and thrived beyond all comprehension. At the same time I had a child sick with cholera infantum; 
on being presented with a box of Granum, with the high recommend from this neighbor, used it and 
continued its use to raise the child on, and I firmly believe this had all to do in saving the former child's 
life and the greater part in restoring my .own child to health. A. C. G." — Leonard's Illustrated Medical 
Journal, Detroit, Mich., Oct. '87. 

P. Varnum Mott, M. D., Boston, Mass., in the Microcosm, New York, February, 1886. — "There are 
numerous Foods that are much vaunted, and all have their adherents. The ' Imperial Granum,' in my 
hands, seems to be all that is claimed for it, and experience has brought me to rely on its use where its 
special properties are indicated. In infantile diseases it has proved very efficacious, and I always direct its 
use when a child is being weaned." 

The lives of untold thousands of infants have been saved by Imperial Granum, and careful mothers 
are loud in their praises of this well known food, and pharmacists can safely recommend it. — Proceedings 
Illinois Pharmaceutal Association, 1887. 

That standard preparation for Infants and Invalids, "Imperial Granum," is steadily moving forward 
as the years roll by, winning hosts of friends wherever its merits become known. We have been familiar 
with it for many years, having known several instances where babies have been brought up entirely on it, 
whose healthy condition is the best possible recommendation of its practical benefits. — The Cottage Hearth, 
Boston, Mass. 

" On some other Planet there may be a better Dietetic Preparation than Imperial Granum, but not on 
this." — The American Analyst, New York. 



SOLD BY DRUGGISTS. 



JOHN CARLE & SONS, New York. 



PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 



MAXFIELD'S. 



Beginning June 21, CHARLES T. MAXFIELD opened a first-class Shore Resort at the 
place formerly known as Golden Spring. Mr. Maxfield's reputation as a shore resort caterer is too 
well known to require comment, as his association with his father, Hiram Maxfield, at Silver Spring 
and elsewhere, has given him an invaluable experience in this line. 

Parties desiring a FIRST-CLASS SHORE DINNER will be sure to find it here. 

The place has been fitted up anew this season, and is supplied with every convenience. Spec- 
ial attention is given to private Parties. 

The Continental Line makes hourly trips to the place, landing the passengers directly on the 
wharf, which projects from the dining pavilion. 



WrightWireClothCo. 




MANUFACTURERS OF 

POOLTRY NETTING, FIRE PROOF WIRE 

LATHING, CELLAR WINDOW 

WIRE CLOTH. 

Patent Folding Steel Fire Escape Ladders. 

PALMER, Mass. 



iETNA COLORED FIRE TORCHES. 

PATENTED. 

The Best in the World. Have a multitude of uses at Summer Resorts, Yachting 
Boating, Lawn Parties, Festivals, Serenades, Etc. 

Indispensable for Campaign Processions and Illuminations, for Military Recep- 
tions, and all descriptions of Night Parades and Demonstrations. 

There is great economy in usinsr these beautiful colored torches, as one dollar 
spent for them will give more satisfaction and delight than ten dollars for any other 
form of colored illumination. 

All Colors, RED, CiKEEN, BLUE, YELLOW, WHITE, Etc.~ 

Wooden handles by which to hold them, ends pointed to stick in the ground iu 
Lawns and elsewhere. The illumination and reflection are transcendautly beautiful. 
Positively and absolutely unequaled in the world. 

CIRCULARS FOR DEALERS 

The mk PYROTECHNIC CO., Hartford, Conn. 




PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 




TAYLOR, 
-SYMONDS- 

-JOBBERS OF- 

J)py- and -Fancy 
•.'•GOODS.-:- 



-AGENTS OF- 



P.S.PECKHAM &CO.. 

FOR THE SALE OF THEIR 

YARNS, 



^tfef^» 



^N 



96 & 100 Weybosset Street, 



THE ESTABLISHMENT OF TAYLOR, SYMONDS & CO., Weybosset St. 



PROVIDENCE, R. 



Langeuer Manufacturing Co.. 




achinepg. 



67 and 69 CLIFFORD STREET, PROVIDENCE, R. I. 



'T'HIS represents a Machine for 
Boring, Tapping and Facing 
Locknuts, at one operation, in one- 
tenth of the time taken by the old 
method, and produces better work 
Samples of work sent on applica- 
tion. 




THIS Machine is shown with 
attachment for chasing threads 
and when worked on reduced 
bushings we are enabled to finish, 
at ONE OPERATION, by bor- 
ing and Tapping inside, and turn- 
ing and threading outside. Plugs 
with same attachment can be done 
to great advantage. 



Drawings l Designs for Industrial i Mechanical Purposes, 



^ PREPARED FOR ^ 

ENGINEERS, MACHINISTS, TOOL MAKERS, MANUFACTURERS and PATENTEES. 



PATENTEES OF HEEL AND PICKER MACHINES. 



w 



E build an Automatic Machine which finishes from a length of pipe taper nipples, suitable for 
Radiator and Boiler connection*. This machine has a capacity of 350 2-inch nipples a day. 



PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 



ARCHIBALD MARTIN, 




Carnage * JStposttorg, 

165, 167 and 169 Pine Street, cor. Richmond, 

PROVIDENCE, R.I. 

Dealer in Fine Carriages, Harnesses, Etc. 

CARRIAGE PAINTING and REPAIRING Neatly and Promptly Executed. 



TELEPHONE CONNECTION. 



PROYIDENGE ELECTROTYPING AND PLATING WORKS, 

Manufacturers of 

f ewelru Srimminqd and Metal Srt Ipork. 

COPIES MADE FROM PATTERNS FURNISHED. 

Gold, Silver, Brass and NICKEL PLATING, Oxydizing, Bronzing, Etc., also Polishing and Grinding. 

No. 78 Friendship Street, Providence, R. I. 

CEO. PRICE, Proprietor. 



4Cigar * SLrxd * Tobacco * I>o ^ojrtxrxexxl:.*- 

BABCOCK&BRIGHAM, 
Wholesale * Grocers, 

n and 95 DYER STREET, PROVIDENCE, R. I. 

Largest Assortment of TOBACCO in the State. 

Full Line of CIGARS from $12 to $100 per M. 

" SUMNER " our leading 10c. Cigar. " LINCOLN " our leading 5c. Cigar. 



PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 



,'SETHAI, 

COUCH KILLER 

^p PREVENTS , ■ w 

CONSUMPTION- 






And all similar Affections of the Chest and Lungs. 

It is WARRANTED Dot to injure the system if taken from 
infancy to old age, and in all eases (where directions are strictly 
followed), to give satisfaction, or the money will be refunded. 
It is pleasant to the taste. 

" I cheerfully add my testimony to the goodness of Dr. Seth 
Arnold's Cough Killer, having been by it entirely cured of a 
severe lung affection, which, according to good physicians in 
this State, had reached an incipient stage of consumption. Had 
tried said physicians and numerous proprietary remedies without 
effect, but a few bottles of Dr. Seth Arnold's Cough Killer 
set me all right. Have recommended it to friends and acquain- 
tances who have used it with the same gratifying results, and I 
consider it the best Cough Remedy ever discovered." 
Gratefully yours, 

M. D. STRATTON, 

Watertown, N. Y 

Mrs. A. D. Chandler, Derby, Vermont, writes : — "I think 
Dr. Seth Arnold's Indian Vegetable Sugar Coated Pills 
the best I ever used. 

FOR SALE BY ■ 

AI^ DRUGGISTS. 



PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 



Henry Blundell & Co,, 



Established 1849. 

— Manufacturers of — 



JEWELERS.' and SILVERSMITHS' 



■TOOLS- 



Nos. 35, 37, 39 ©IrlFFQiHB) &TRSET, 

Providence, It. I., U. S. A. 

CHARLES S. DURFEE, 

Fipe « and - f^apine 
No. 3 Weybosset Street, 

PROVIDENCE, R. I. 

VOU CAN GET THE MOST REFRESHIHG-V- 

-&16LASS 9r S0DA,K- 

AT 

386 BROAD STREET, COR. SUMMER 

- — CALL FOR 

HOWE'S SUN CHOLERA MIXTURE 

For Cramps and Pains. 
PRESCRIPTIONS A SPECIALTY. 

A. W. HOWE'S, Corner Broad & Summer. 



AT 



A. P. NERONE, 

Kine * Boots, 



SHOES and RUBBERS. 

30 STATE STREET, - BRISTOL, R. I. 

© &TU131Q , © 

Billiard Hall 

and Cigar Store, 

CHARLES F. PIERCE, Proprietor, 

Lincoln Ave., - Riverside, R. I. 

Oyster and Lunch House Caterer on 

European Plan. 

JOHN STEWART, Clerk. 



JAMES C. PRAY, 

DEALER IN 

Watches, Clocks ^.Jewelry, 

86 South Main St., Providence, R. I. 

FINE REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. 



M. L. READ, 

Manufact uring Jeweler. 

-Wl®c- 

Latest Designs in White and Foil 

STOZtsTIE GrOOIDS- 

Gents' Scarf Pins a Specialty. 
II8 DQRRANCE ST., - PROVIDENCE, R. I. 

IENRY B. SPO0NER, 
lERCrl/Wsf/ULOR. 




-^CHAMBERS^- \ 
179 Tr^me 5 §*., NeWport 1^. 1. 

JOSEPH J. SMITH, 

■ Dealer in 

Furniture. 

Old Silver, Old China,Bric-a-Brac, 

Ancient Arms and Antiques 

Generally. 

No, 26 COLLEGE STREET, PROVIDENCE, R. I. 

WM. H. TEEL&SON, 
-HicFa^ionableJle^- 

Boot Olakeps, 

WALKENFAST and COMMON SENSE BOOTS 

A Specialty. 

70 EDDY ST., near WESTMI NSTER. 

Sokt Suildef. 

Yacht, Sail and Row Boats, Club Boats, Wherries, Steam 
Launches, Spoon Oars, and every class of Boat- 
building done at short notice. 

ALLEN'S AYENDE, Foot of RHODES STREET, 

SOUTH PROVIDENCE. 

ROW BOATS TO LET. MARINE RAILWAY. 

EDWIN O. WEST, 



TAILOR 



60 D0RRANCE STREET, Under NARRAGANSETT HOTEL, 

PROVIDENCE, R. I. 



PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 



of nil descriptions 
FOK SAX.E Oil RENT. 



\7 



ot all kinds 
FOR SALE OR CHARTER. 



Real Estate and Yacht Agent, 

?@, ^jjf ^T&aaiea Sf« y Htwpoft, H. I» 

Room 2 and 3, over Caswell, Massey & Co.'s Drug Store. 



Marine Building Sites a Specialty. 



*8 



IFOIR, SALE- 



Mortgages Negotiated. 
—8^ 



Some of the finest Building Sites on Conanicut Island. They are of great prospective value. 
Lots can be sold in sizes to suit purchasers ; and persons seeking sites for summer residences, or 
opportunities for investment cannot do better than to buy here, and should do so at once, as prices 
will soon be in advance of present rates. The immediate close proximity to Newport with the 
steam ferry landing within a few minutes' walk commends this property as something unusually 
desirable. The location is unsurpassed for health, and the land and marine views are of surpass- 
ing beauty. The whole can be seen and full information given upon application to 

DANIEL WATSON, Sole Agent, 
No. 235 Thames Street, Newport, R. I. 

A MAP OF CONANICUT ISLAND SENT POST-PAID UPON RECEIPT OF 25 CENTS. 



JOSEPH HAIRE, 

heFUSTUIL * PLUMBER^ 

Four Doors North of Church St., 

HAS CONSTANTLY IN STOCK 

all the latest improvements, Closets, Traps 
and Plumbing Materials. 

stimates 



:o orders, and 
lly civeii. 

TELEPHONE CONNECTION. 



Prompt attention given 
cheer! 



THE * WAKEFIELD * 

Wakefield, R. I 



E, 



Good accommodation near the Railroad Depot. 



RATES $2.00 PER DAY. 
JEREMIAH BRIGGS, - - Proprietor. 



SHADY LAWN. 

PRIVATE HOSPITAL for INSANE g INEBRIATES. 

DISEASES OK WOMEN 



Medically and Surgically treated ; various inval- 
idism ; care for the dementia of old age ; 
an elegant and veteran establishment, 
under the regular medical methods ; 
family organization. 

Case, of Alcohol, or Narcotic Inebriety may be 
legally committed and held, as well as canes of Lun- 
acy. Prevention of the inebriety is thu* secured. 

Gothic St., Northampton, Massachusetts. 



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PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 




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THIS Elegant New House, with all 
modern conveniences, gas, running 

water, etc., stands on a pretty 
height, near Ocean View Landing, 
P. O., U. S. Telegraph Office and 
Chapel. 

Its view is simply panoramic. He 
who on clear days looks seaward from 
the spacious piazzas, may view Point 
Judith, Charlestown, Montunac Beach 
and Watch Hill, with the wide Atlan- 
tic surging between. 

"THE ADRIAN" 

BLOCK ISLAND, R. I. 

NATHAN MOTT, Proprietor. 



-iQnion* Houses 

BLOCK KSX^ArcD, R. I. 

The above Fine and Commodious House is within three minutes' walk 
of the landing, and the proprietor hopes, by liberal management and care- 
ful attention to the wants of guests, to merit public patronage. Call here 
before making definite arrangements. 



Terms Reasonable. 



L. A. BALL. 



G. G. ZB-A-LL, 

DEALER IN 

K. General Heine of .Merchandise. 

Boots and Shoes, Bathing Suits, Coal, Cigars, Confectionery, Dry Goods of all sorts and kinds, Fruit, 

Furniture, Groceries, Grain, Glass and Hardware, Ice, Lumber, Meats, Maps, Guide Books 

and Souvenirs of the Island, Toys for the little ones, Fancy Goods tor the ladies, 

Snuff tor the old time gentlemen, Pipes and Tobacco. 

SPECIAL BARCAfNS IN SHOES FOR THE SEA SHORE. 

A full line of goods always on hand, and prices the very lowest. 

An Excellent Assortment of Tennis Outfits on hand. 



Everything from a shoe string to a stove can be found at 

Near tke Landing. 



PICTURESQUE NA.RRAGANSETT. 



WoonsocRet House, 



BLOCK ISLAND, R. I. 



A. J. ROSE, 



Proprietor. 



©NE of the most popular houses on the Island. In addition to the original house another edifice has been erected 
further up the slope on a commanding situation, by which means the accommodations have been doubled. 
From either or from any part of the grounds magnificent views of the Harbor, the beach, and vessels passing to 
and fro can always he had. 

Both houses have modern improvements, superb ventilation, and absolutely perfect sanitary arrangements, 
water being supplied from the new Sand's Pond Reservoir, and the sewerage being conducted in an iron pipe which 
discharges into the ocean below low water mark. 

The table will be provided with fresh eggs, milk, butter, poultry and vegetables from the farm connected with 
the house- The "Woonsocket" has its own bathing beach, bath houses, etc., less than a thousand feet distant, and the 
accommodations in this respect, especially for children, are believed to surpass any other house on the island. 

GoNNEeneaT HetiSE, 

^>(^BLOCK ISLAND, R. I.^5<^ 



ESPECIALLY adapted to those seeking rest and quiet, surrounded as it is by green fields and com- 
manding a fine view of the ocean. Supplied with a well of good water. Carriages will be in 
waiting on the arrival of boats. 

The House is situated on elevated ground, away from the noise and dust, and sufficiently near the land- 
ing to afford a pleasant walk. Here, one will find all the home comforts and good wholesome food, clean 
beds, pleasant company, while in the line of recreation excursions for fishing and picnicingare frequently 
organized. Its position, overlooking many of the other hotels upon the island, commands an extensive 
view of land and ocean scenery. 

feim Moderated- ->£M . M. P&T, F J £Q$ir£@tG£ 9 



BROWN'S 




FRENCH— 
—DRESSING 

FOR 

Ladies' and Children's 

Boots and Shoes. 

Highest Award Wherever Exhibited. None Genuine with- 
out Paris Medal on every bottle. Beware of Imitations 




DON'T 
DRINK 

ICE 

Water, 

WHICH IS THE CAU8E 



BRIGHT'S DISEASE. 

A25cffl| I CjynQRootBeer 
bottle off\ %at &m 9n ll ^Extract. 

Will make Six Gallons of Beer. 
DAftT^° trouble, no boiling, 
|iyi|| | no straining. All ready. 
It Is made entirely from Roots and 
Herbs, such as Dandelion, Hops, 
Spikenard, nppn Ginger, Sas- 
safras. Pip- DEE IB s i ssewa, 
Wild Cherry, &c. Makes a healthy 
and sparkling drink. Sold by all 
Druggist3 & Grocers. Q ( [_ CARTER) 
Apoth e c ar y 
Lowell, Lass 

A package of Herbs for making 
Beer 3ent by mail for< 



EXTRACT 



|25 CENTS. 



PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 



NEWPORT & WICKFORD 

Railroad and Steamboat Company. 

The only Rail Line between Newport and New York. Express Trains, 

with elegant Drawing Room Gars between Wickford 

Landing and New York. 



Tickets sold and baggage checked at Steamer Eolus, Commercial Wharf, 
and at Transfer Company's office, No. 4 Travers' Block, Bellevue Avenue, 
Newport. 

Drawing Room Chairs and Sleeping Car Berths can be secured at com- 
pany's office, Commercial Wharf. 



[June 25, 1888.] 




From Newport 












Leave. 


A. M 


A.M. 

7 30 

8 32 
8 85 
8 40 


A. M. 

10 20 

11 22 
11 25 
11 80 


P. M. 

1 30 

2 32 
2 35 
2 45 


P.M. 

"i'37 
4 40 
145 


P. M. 

4 45 
6 47 
6 50 

5 F5 


P. M 

8 15 

9 17 
9 20 
9 2f 


P. M. I 

^11 15 




535 

5 38 

6 42 




| 12 29 

Q 12 26| 


Wickford Junction. 


..Arr. 


Wickford Junction. . . 


..Lve. 


5 43 

6 50 
8 45 


8 43 

9 15 

10 50 


11 36 

12 15 


2 45 

3 15 

4 30 


4 491 6 05 1 9 28 
6 35 6 40 9 65 
8 OOl 8 00! 11 00 


5 02 


Boston 


..Arr. 


7 00 




Wickford Junction.. 


..Lve. 


8 45 

9 00 


938 
9 54 

10 26 

11 10 
1 10 


11 46 

11 59 

12 23 

1 05 

2 25 


2 65 

3 08 

3 3) 

4 20 

5 55 

8 (ii) 


4 53 

5 10 

5 44 

6 40 
9 00 


.. 6 . 28 




1 29 

1 42 

2 09 
2 65 
4 35 












7 45 
9 00 









































To Newport. 



Leave. 


r. M. 
:i si 

1 65 

:t 36 

4 IS 

i a 

5 02 


a p - M - 

ao 5 00 
3^ • ..- 

a -&"i'26 
00 5 00 
tr.o 5 12 


A.M. 

'7 is 

8 OS 
8 30 
8 43 


A. M. 

6 00 
8 05 
10 05 

10 48 

11 18 
11 36 


A. M. 

10 00 
12 05 

1 25 

2 07 
2 32 
2 45 


P. M. 

"3 '65 

3 55 

4 35 
4 39 


P. M. 
1 00 
3 05 

5 18 

5 49 

6 06 


P.M. 


P. M. 

5 00 

7 00 

8 10 


New Haven 

New London 








Wickford Junction Arr. 




9 28 








10 00 

11 15 
11 46 


1 OOl 

2 20 4 10 
2 55l 4 53 










= 1-; 5. 

- I 2!) 


1 


8 00 
8 45 




5 20 

6 10 




Wickford Junction. .Arr. 1 


I 




Wickford Junction.. Lve. 

Belleville 

Wickford ... 

Newport Arr. 


5 12 

6 17 

5 20 

6 25 


5 12 
5 17 

5 20 

6 25 


8 45 
8 50 

8 53 

9 55 


11 50 
11 65 
11 57 
100 


3 00 
3 05 

3 08 

4 10 


4 53 

4 58 

5 03 


6 05 
6 10 

6 13 

7 20 


6 10 

6 15 

6 20 

7 20 


9 30 
9 35 
9 38 
10 40 



Connections : — 

At Wickford Junction, with New York, Providence & Boston Railroad. 

At Providence, for Boston and Worcester. 

At Kingston, for Peacedale, Wakefield and Narragansett Pier. 

At Wood River Junction, for Hope Valley. 

At Stonington, for Watch Hill and Stonington Line Steamers for New 
York. 

At New London, for Norwich, Hartford, Springfield, Pittsfield, Albany 
and Saratoga, N. L. N. R. R. 

At Saybrook, for Hartford, Connecticut Valley R. R. 

At Bridgeport, for Great Barrington, Stockbridge and Lenox, Housa- 
tonic R. R. 

O. U. COFFIN, Agent, 



J. B. GARDINER, Sup!., 

PROVIDENCE, R. I. 



NEWPORT, R. I. 



PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 




Block Island Steamboat Company. 

New Line Between Providence and Block Island, via Newport and Continental Line. 

CARRYING THE UNITED STATES IVIAIL. 



The New and Staunch Steamer 

GKEO- -W. XDA-^TIET_.SOIsr, 

Captain Conley, 

Is running daily, Sundays excepted, between Block Island and Newport, connecting with steamers of the 
Continental Line of Providence. 

Leaving Block Island at 8 a. in., arriving at Newport in time to connect with the Continental steamer 
for Providence. Passengers for Block Island can take the steamer at Providence, arriving at Newport in 
time to connect with steamer to Block Island, which leaves Newport daily at 12.30 p. in. 

All express matter for Block Island will be shipped by Earle & Prew's express; all freight to be marked 
"Block Island, via Continental." 

"WXZLnTTIEIRv tijmiie table. 

Leaves Block Island Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 8.30 a. in.; returning, leaves Newport Tuesday, 
Thursday and Saturday at 12.30 p. in. Monday and Friday runs to Providence; returning 9.00 a. m- 
Tuesday and Saturday, stopping at Newport each way. 

!£iF™On these trips steamer arrives at Block Island usually about 3.00 p. m., at Providence about 
2.00 p. m. 

<^Blocb: Inland Housie 9 i> 

BLOCK XSXj^SLCTXX 

THIS hotel overlooks all others on the Island. From it the views of the ocean are magnificent. The 
distant shores of the Atlantic from Newport to Narragansett Pier, Point. Judith and Watch Hill, af- 
lord the spectator a grand panoramic view of nature, land and water, while the nearer scenes at the 
harbor, of steamers, pleasure yachts and fishing vessels, arriving, discharging cargoes and passengers 
and leaving for various points please the eye with ever forming and dissolving views. The hotel is 
reached by a good road about half a mile from the landing, and a carriage for the conveyance of guests is in 
waiting on the arrival of the boat. The house is comfortable and home-like^ and its table is supplied with 
vegetables fresh from the farm and garden belonging to the house. 



CAPT. GEO. W. CONLEY, °i 



Steamer 
DANIELSON 



Proprietor. 



PICTURESQJJE NARRAGANSETT. 



National i House, 

On the Bluff, fronting the harbor, 
is the National Hotel, a fine, large, 
four-story edifice with a French roof, 
and ample piazzas in front. It is a 
new house, opened for the first time 
this season, and contains fifty large, 
light and airy rooms, nearly every 
one of which looks out on the ocean. 
For convenience of location it is un- 
surpassed on the island, being only 
about two minutes' walk from the 
steamboat wharf, across the street 
from the Post-Office, a few steps from 
theU. S. Signal and Cable office, 
and near the Churches, principal 
stores and other public places. Cres- 
cent Beach, the principal bathing 
place, is only a short distance away, 
and a plank walk leads there from 
the hotel. The house has hot and 
cold water, and the latest improved 
sanitary and bathing facilities on 
each floor, while its drainage is abso- 
lutely perfect. The house is lighted 
throughout with gas, and every room 
provided with electric bells. The table is supplied from one of the largest island farms, while by 
steamer supplies from the New York markets are daily received. With all of these conveniences and 
advantages the rates are reasonable, and as the house is under the direct control of its proprietor, 
Mr. R. G. Lewis, the best of service can with certainty be depended upon. 

NEWPORT, R. I. 




OCEAN HOUSE, 



Address, J. G. WEAVER & SON, Newport, 
House, Union Square, New York. 



R. I.; or J. G. WEAVER, Jr., & Co., Everett 



Sand and Vacuum Chamber. 




These chambers are made 
both upright and horizontal 
and warranted to stop sand, 
or money refunded. 



B. F. SMITH, 

CONTRACTOR FOR 

Artesian m Driven Weils. 

BY HAND AND STEAM POWER. 
No. 38 Oliver Street, Boston, Mass. 



Thousands of these wells are used for Domestic and Farm purposes. By 
Manufacturers to save Water Rates, Breweries, Tanneries, Gas Works, 
Creameries and Dairies, where cold water is needed. 

Particular Attention Riven to supplying Cities, Towns and Villages. 

Soundings made for Building and Bridge Foundations, and other pur- 
poses to ascertain the nature of the soil. 

SEND FOR CIRCULAR OF REFERENCES. 



PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 






T V.- 



..■- s jfe>& . '**MtiM$kMj 





in Barter isnmit Paying Company 



IMPORTERS AND REFINERS OF 

TRINIDAD ASPHALT, 

And Contractors for Trinidad Asphalt 

I* AVE MENTS. 



CHARLES HARRIS, Sole Agent for New England, 

12 PEAEL ST., BOSTON - , 2«LA.SS. 



HUM MMIIIIIMII 



GRANOLITHIC ! 

An Artificial Stone, composed of Portland Cement and Granite, for 

Sidewalks, Basement Floors, Corridors, Railroad Platforms, Etc., Etc. 

^g^See Granolithic Sidewalk, Burnside Monument, Providence, R. I. 

CHARLES HARRIS, Agent for New England, 



Office, 12 Pearl Street, Boston. 



IVKVST YORK 

Architectural tJTerra Cotta Company. 

POTTER BUILDING, 38 PARK ROW, N. Y. 

WALTER GEER, President. JAMES TAYLOR, Supt. of Works. 

CHARLES HARRIS, Agent, 12 Pearl St., Boston. 



PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 



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^otVLti ow what y ha ve „ 0f 



£*mm-**% 






g^fco-S if ' ^oP * soa^ 



It the importance 
of a Pure Soap in 
washing the skin 
was fully realized, 
all would be more 
careful in the se- 
lection of the same. 




«ti 



G d 



TOILET a™ COMPLEXION 



REFRESHING. 



!3£y- 



I consider your 
Hop Soap for the 
toilet and complex- 
ion far superior to 
any imported or 
American soap I 
have ever used. It 
is agreeable, re- 
freshing, and in- 
comparable. 

Yours truly, 
Mrs. H. C Brown, 

842 Lafayette Ave., 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 
April 5, 1888. 



A CLEAR, FRESH SKIN LENDS A CHARM TO I TS POSSESSOR . 

The continued use of cosmetics, powders, and strong alkaline soaps will ruin the most beautiful complexion 
The skin, especially in the face and hands, is composed of thousands of glands and tubes which are "1'®° witban 
oily fluid, which should escape through the pores of the skin, rendering it healthy. , If a cheap, strong soap is 
used in bathing it will destroy and fill up these passages of escape, rendering the skin dry, taicJt, ana easuy 
effected by the atmosphere, laying the foundation for skin diseases. 

TO MOTHERS AND NURSES 

Who bathe infants and young children we have a word to say. Exercise the greatest of care and select a pure 
soap ; it is of the greatest importance to secure a clear, healthy skin and a good complexion. Do not use any 
soap you may have at hand without first investigating its purity, as many soaps are made troni impure animai 
fats and articles entirely unfit for use. If a pure, soothing soap is used in bathing infants, it means at jeast 
four hours more sleep a day, to say nothing of the comfort it affords to the child, and the cleansing, heal ng 
and whitening effect it has on the skin. Many mothers have an idea that there « nothing better torbatlung 
children than White Castile Soap ; this is a very great mistake, as analysis shows. The chemist who makes Hop 
Soap sold all grades of Castile Soap while in the prescription drug business, and the most of them aie ^rai ■ troni 
what they should be to come in contact with the tender skin of a young child Hop Soap is made to nit a long 
felt want for a pure article, and is recommended by the medical profession, where it is Known. 

It is intended for the use of all classes, old and youna- alike, who appreciate a pure soap. 

As a dentifrice for cleansing the teeth and gums, it is superb. 

It is as pure as the purest article of food, and could be eaten with perfect sal ety. «,„„-''.■ 

A pure soap should be used on the tace and hands daily to keep the facial and manual pores open, as these 
are more apt to become clogged by grease and dirt than any others, because they are more exposed i tie i tree 
use of Hop Soap on the face and hands will result in a clear complexion and soft, white hands In many cases 
where you see a sallow, thick, pasty skin, it is the result of the use ot impure soap, or no soap at all, which has 
not kept the face real clean nor the pores open so as to allow the secretion to escape. ootiafQ „t n .„ m-at 

pit We ask no one to buy a second cake of Hop Soap if the effect of the first is not entirely satisfactory. Test 
its purity and see how clear the face will become and how clean it will feel after its use. 

Sold by all Dealers at 25 cts. a Cake. Three Cakes in Box, 68 cts. 



Mail 10c. in stamps for sample and treatise. Address, 

MAKERS OF HOP SOAP,' 



NEW LONDON, CONN. 



The Hop Remedies Strictly 
Pure. 

Hop Soap for the toilet, 25 
cts. Hop Ointment for the 
skin, 25 cts. Hop Resolvent 
for the blood, $1. Little Hop 
Pills for the liver, 25 cts. Sold 
by all druggists ; or A FAM- 
ILY BOX, containing one 
each, neatly packed and sent 
by mail or express to any 
part of the United States on 
receipt of $1.75. See book of 
cures and testimonials. 



•THREE SISTERS- 

• RUTH -rtAUDE- AND -LOUISE 

WTIO ALWAYS BAfflE WTTH.HOP 50AP 



THE-NATIONAL 

i-REKEDIES 

^WITHOUT- 



•H0PS0AP 

FOR THE TOILET- 
IS LUXURIOUS 




If you will mail us four 
cents in postage stamps 
with jour P. O. Address, 
we would be pleased to 
send you samples of our 
goods for trial, in plain 
wrapper, with cards and 
book of cures and testi- 
monials. 



hop r;e^m:e>i>ie}» compaivy< 

ItflEX^r LONDON, Conn. 



PICTURESQJJE NARRAGANSETT. 



RHODE ISLAND TOY AND FIRE WORK CO., 



Manufacturers of the 



■sne- 




sonogram 



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■^"i mil •■■■• iiiiiimifl 



Colored * 



-^w- 



Fire * Works. 

JOBBERS OF 

Flags, Lanterns, Balloons, Pistols, Revolvers, Caps, Torpedoes, and Celebrating and 



Decorating Goods of all descriptions. 

■Ifni W@!JI SttKATf A SSI 

OFFICE AND SALESROOM : 



.1^ 



No. 23 Weybosset Street, opp. Post-Office, Providence, R. I. 
GEORGE M. CRUICKSHANK, 



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^Kngineer^i 



AND BUILDER OF 



STATIONARY, PORTABLE AND YACHT 




Experimental, Special, and General Machinery. 

RUBBER MOULDS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION 

Nos. 280 to 286 Dyer {St., 

PROVIDENCE, R. I. 



PICTURESQJJE NARRAGANSETT. 



Thos. Hersom & Co., 

K0-E:X^7- BEDFORD, M-ASS., 

OJIP # HANUFACTUBEB' 



AND DEALERS IN 

SPERM, WHALE, MTSFOOT, PALM AND CASTOR OILS. 

I would call particular attention to my best Soaps, namely : — 

These Soaps are equal to the best in the market. They are made of Tallow, and are free from any 
adulteration. The "BEST" and "NORTHERN BELLE" are highly perfumed, and therefore 
good for the toilet or bath ; also, manufacturer of "SAPONE," the best granulated Soap in the 
market. Please give them a trial. We have constantly on hand 

-^GROUND BONE, OR BONE MEAL=- 

which is absolutely pure. A conceded fact that Bone Meal has no equal as a fertilizer for Farms, 
Gardens and Lawns if properly applied. We can give the best of references from the most prac- 
tical farmers and gardeners in our vicinity, if desired, as to its results. 



THOMAS XXJESXfeSOXME «§fc GO,, 

' FISH ISL-A-ISnD » 

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. 

Old Colony Railroad. 



HE DIRECT AND POPULAR ROUTE TO 
"f 

llartba's Wimmymw^ 

EDGARTOWN, MENAHAUNT, FALMOUTH HEIGHTS, WOOD'S HOLL, 

3\TA.KTTXJOI5LE!T, O.A»IE»:E3 COD, 

and the Shores and Islands of Southeastern Massachusetts. The Famous Seaside Resorts of 
America, and to 

LOWELL, FITCHBURG, NASHUA, MANCHESTER, CONCORD, THE WHITE MOUNTAINS, RUTLAND, 
BURLINGTON, SARATOGA, MONTREAL and Intermediate Points. 

Send 4 cents in stamps to "Passenger Department Old Colony Railroad, Post Office box 5,143, 
Boston," for copy of "Pilgrim Land " "Summer Days," and other publications containing list of 
Old Colony Railroad Resorts, List of Hotels and Boarding Houses, rates, excursion fares, etc. 

See daily papers for latest time tables. 



J R KENDRICK 



GEO. L. CONNOR, 

General Passenger Agent. 



PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 




for more than Half a century, 
TllE OLD tJNlTED STATES rfOTEL, 

OF BOSTON, 



has maintained its RESPECTABILITY AND EXCELLENCE. 

Originally the largest Hotel in Boston, it has been twice 
enlarged years ago, by the extensive wings on Kingston and 
Lincoln Streets, named respectively Oregon and Texas. 

During the past five years it has been under the management of 
Mr. TILLY HAYNES, of Springfield, Mass. 
who has completely renovated, enlarged and improved the prop- 
erty, and last year added still another hundred rooms, by building 
across from Texas to Oregon. 

Think of a Hotel from Texas to Oregon, and you will understand 
why this notice is written, which is to say that the UNITED 
STATES recommends itself for its quiet, orderly management, and 
the notable character of its guests, its numerous public rooms and 
grand old parlors, broad halls and numerous stairways, while none 
of its 500 Guest Rooms are above the fourth floor. 

These, with its very central location, its most excellent 
1 / table, and moderate charges, recommend it to all who 

ry have once shared its hospitality. 



M° 



PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 



nufacturers of 



Silver I Gold Plate 




-«il> 




TAUNTON 
MASSACHUSETTS 






^SSEP 




SALESROOMS, 37 UNION SQUARE, 

NEW YORK. 



PICTURESQJJE NARRAGANSETT. 



THE "BEST AND SAFE ST" INSURANCE ASSOCIATI ON, PROVIDENCE, R. I. 

THE PARAGON GAS MACHINE. 




This machine is a piece of operative mechanism, and not a series of inert evaporating pans as employed by other makers. 
The gasoline is fed from the tank F to the generator K through a small connecting pipe, and the flow regulated by a float in the 
generator. Fresh gasoline is supplied from the air tight tank as required to meet the demands imposed by the machine. A 
revolving gauge wheel in the generator mixes and equalizes the gasoline, yielding a uniform light at all times. 
Every Machine Warranted. J. E. GOLDSVVORTHY, Manufacturer, Central Falls, R. I. 




Fine Magazine and Book Illustration, 



PORTRAITS, MACHINERY, BUILD- 
INGS, LANDSCAPES, PLATES 
FOR COLOR PRINTING, 
LABELS, ETC. 



THE 



CARTER 

OILED CLOTHING 

Horse Covers, Car Drivers' Coats, 

Slickers, Drivers' Favorite, 

Waterproof Hats, Etc. 

The Original, Genuine and Only Reliable. 



J. F. CARTER. 



SOLE MANUFACTURER. 



Main Oltice ami Factories at Beverly, Mass., 

U. S. A. P. O. Box, 1436. 

New York Branch, 9 Lispenard Street. 



PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 



What ® Cheer ® House, 

-BUIvIvOCK'S : POIJVT." 




The above house is located six miles from Providence, and it is a charming place to spend a little time by the sea- 
shore. The house will accommodate one hundred and fifty quests, and is conducted on the American plan, from $l.<i()to$1.50 
per day. Connected with the house is a beautiful Pine Grove and a splendid Beach for Bathing- : also, a Dance Hall, the 
music for which is furnished by Vaughn's Orchestra. Genuine Rhode Island Shore Dinners served daily, and a liberal dis- 
count from regular rates given to Sunday Schools and other Societies. 

TOBOGGAN SLIDE, FLYING HORSES, BOAT SWINGS, and other Amusements. 



J". E3. T7\7"0<3J3\7\7"-A.M>, Prop, 



The Leading Piano -Fortes of the World 

ARE THE 

SHONINGER PIANOS 



ESTABLISHED 1850. 

Because they Are the Best Now Made. No Other Can Compete With Them. 
Sing Their Own Praisa. 



Will 




Facts which cannot be better demonstrated than by the use of 
these celebrated instruments, which have become so popular among the 
music loving- public. 

The Shoninger Grand Upright Cnbinet Pianos are con- 
structed from the musician's standpoint as well as that, of the mechanic, 
ir pure and resonant quality of tone, con- 
possibilities. As the best work and best 
material invariably insure the best results, the Slioninger Pianos 
stand pre-eminently in the front rank, having achieved the grandest 
success in musical science ever known to this soul-inspiring art, and are 
unsurpassed by any Piano-Fortes ever made. 

They have been pronounced by experienced connoisseurs to be the 
embodiment of perfection, and are especially adapted to withstand the 
SEVEREST CLIMATIC CHANGES, close attention being paid to this 
important feature. 

EVERY PIANO FULLY WARRANTED. 

places 
rom the 

allowed. |3?"Send for beautifully illustrated Catalogues and any desired 
information. 

Highest Honors Awarded at the U. S. Centennial Exhibition at 
Philadelphia, 1876; Exposition Universelle de 1878, Paris; Rotterdam, 1883; 
and at State and Agricultural Fairs where our instruments have been 
exhibited. For full particulars address. 



B. SHONINGER CO., 

NEW HAVEN, CONN., and 215 STATE ST., CHICAGO, ILL., U. S. A. 



PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 



THE BEST PREPARATION FOR HOOSE-KEEPING 




•IS A- 



WIRE GAUZE DOOR 

AS USED EXCLUSIVELY IN THE 

NEW i HUB i RANGE, 



S^^I^R^E^O'T COOKINGS 

Is the most important item in the domestic economy. By usinj? the Wire Gauze Oven Door with the new Hub 
Kauffe, the skill oi tin- .;.mt is su i ,pl c i ti.^ii 1 .-. I by the most Perfect conking apparatus ever made. See what a 
test we otter to subject it to Y\e guarantee the New Hub Ran«-e with Wire Gauze Oven Door to work as per- 
fectly 111 the open air with the t hermoini'ter at zero, as an v other ran^e will in a warm kitchen. This test shows 
conclusively the absolute, certainty of operation ; and, when this is combine, 1 with a saving of fuel, and 
the production of better and more healthful food, the superiority of the Hub Ran ye over all others is at 
once apparent. 

Three of the Hub Ranges with Wire Gauze Oven Doors are in constant use at the famous Boston Cooking 
School, and arc endorsed by them as beiny better than all others. -Insist on your dealer yiviny you the new 
Hub Raug-e. It is the very highest pade of cookiujr apparatus made, and when quality is considered, is the 
lowest in price oi any in the market. Over luu.ooo Hub Rantces in use. The Hub line of goods are world re- 
nowned, and are sold by dealers everywhere. Special circulars sent on application. 

SMITH & ANTHONY STOVE CO., 

Manufacturers of 

Hixl> Stoves, Ranges and Furnaces, 

52 & 54 UNION STREET, BOSTON, MASS. 

ROGERS & BROTHER, 




"w^.TEsmoxm-s-, CONX., 



MANUFACTURERS OF 



* Silver Plated Table Ware. > 



tirade i^lj^risz 



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JfL ROGERS & BRO. A. 1 ." 



Assyrian 
Old Silver. 



All goods stamped as above are warranted 
GENUINE AND UNEXCELLED! 



PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 

lll^OOLOMONrjR, 

INDIAN PHYSICIAN. 



Seventh Son of old Dr. James M. Solomon, ot 
Attleboro, Mass. 

TREATS ALL DISEASES WITH ROOTS, HERBS AND 
BARKS. 

Locates Diseases without asking questions. 

YOU CAN BE CURED NOW. 

DR. SOLOMON has had years of experience in every class 
or form of disease. He has treated more cases annually than any 
other physiciaD in the world, curing thousands of persons who 
were considered incurable; and has raised from the deathbed 
thousands who had lost all hope. Those who once said " I will try 
no more," are to-day his converts 

No CALOMEL, QUININE, or other SLOW POISONS 

but Nature's own remedies have 

power over disease. 

DR. SOLOMON IS PERMANENTLY LOCATED AT 

75 COURT STREET, BOSTON, MASS. 

Where he can be consulted daily from 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. 
Consultation Free. 




MRS. DR. AUGUSTA SOLOMON 

BOSTON, MASS. 



HINTS TO L-A-IDIZES-E 



Are You Troubled With Moles on the Face, Neck or Aruis ? 

If 80, consult Mrs. Dr. Augusta Solomon, she will perman e ntly remove them without leaving any scar whatever. 

Are You Troubled With Superfluous Hair on the Face, Hands, or Arms ? 
If so, go at once and have it permanently removed by Mrs. Dr. Augusta Solomon. It leaves no scar and does not injure 
the skin a particle. 

Is Your Face Disfigured by Moth Patches, Pimples, or Blackheads ? 

She will remove them for you without any injury to the most delicate skin. Yo\i need no arsenic or other 
poisons to beautify your complexion. If you have a CANCER she will cure you. If you have a TUMOR she will cure 
you. If you have Female Weakness or Ovarian Troubles, come and be cured. 



ADDRESS 



JM.R&. $)<R. JlTJGTJSTjl SOLOMON. 

75 COURT STREET, BOSTON, MASS. 




WE MEAN WHAT WE SAY! 

BALD SPOTS 

THIN HAIR 

DANDRUFF 
TKJM EEARD 
FALLING HAIR 



We cure these 
by means of 
Fechter'a Fa- 

u, Fairirnn. 

Send fur par- 
ticulars of 
our remedy. 



FECHTKlt KKJ'KDT CO., 
New Haven, Com.. Box 86 E. 



Send this to some bald beaded friend. 



C.W.BABCOCK 



MANUFACTURER OF 



Paper * Boxes 



OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. 



Jewelers' Boxes a Specialty. 

Factory, near Depot, North Attleboro. 



PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 



NORTH DIGHTON 



StOVe Company- 



MANUFACTURERS OF 



Rangesand ParlorStoves. 





The Stoves and Ranges manufactured by this Company are guaranteed to 
be the equal in construction, fitting of joints and smoothness of casting to 
any in the market. 

THE 

IDEAL, ALMONER, GARDNER and WHITE OAK RANGES, 



-j^jstjd- 



AlyMOHBR PARLOR 8TOVBS 

ARE THE SPECIALTIES MANUFACTURED. 



CHARLES H. EVANS, Treasurer, 
NORTH DIGHTON CO-OPERATIVE STOVE COMPANY. 



PICTURESQJJE NARRAGANSETT. 




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The Best Low-priced 

Paper Cutter 

In the market. 

Simple, Strong, 

and Reliable, 



Send for Circular. 



T.V.&V.C. 

Stillman, 

Westerly, R. I. 



TRADE MA 




Don't be a Dounerfunk 



R.J. PAlNfc, i uveuloraud Patentee. 

iPTTiE^iTiEiisriE. 

To make the house sweet and clean. 

Use Jinks' Famous Puritene. 

Progressive housewives bright and keen, 

Make work light with Puritene. 

On all days you'll keep serene, 

If you but use the Puritene. 

A little girl, though scarce thirteen. 

Is delighted to do work with Puritene. 

Your work do without machine 

By the aid of Puritene. 

Search where you will, in vain you'll glean, 

A match for Jinks' Puritene. 

Of all componnds 'tis the Queen, 

So say those who use Jinks' Puritene. 



PURICeilG 

Is not about the same thing as other Washing Powders, as 

perhaps you may have been told by some 

unscrupulous grocers, but 

18 

A Wonderful Washing Compound. 



Puritene iS tne greatest invention of the 19th century. 

Imitated by many, equaled by none. Insist on 

having PURITENE. Take no other, and 

be sure that you get what you seek. 

See that it is manufactured by 

THE JINKS' SOAP M'F'G CO, 

Mansfield, Mass. 



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PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 



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R. F. HAWKINS' 

Iron Works. 

IRON and WOODEN BRIDGES and 

TURN TABLES. 

STEAM BOILERS, IRON CASTINGS, 

BOLTS, ETC. 

SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 

R. F. HAWKINS, Proprietor. C. H. MULLIGAN, Supt. 

E. B.JENNINGS, Engineer. 

Breech and Muzzle Loading Gannon, 




These Cannons are made from Finest Gun Bronze, and 
mounted for all purposes. All sizes and all prices. 
Yacht Cannon, Canoe Cannon, Campaign Cannon. 
Send for Circular. 

STRONG Fire Arms Co., New Haven, Conn. 



The All-Right Steam Heater. 




These Heaters are Guaranteed for Five Years 

against any fault of the boilers, and have been well tested. 
Are Reliable, Economical, and Efficient. Contains all that 
any (food apparatus does, and the price is below them all. It 
could be no better if it cost twice as much. Between 300 and 
4(io now in use. Circulars sent on application to 

The COMBINATION CO., 

Or WM. H. PAGE, Treasurer, 

NORWICH, COHSTST. 



WEST i SILVER I CO., 



(Successor to F. B. ROGERS SILVER Co.) 




Manufacturers of a full line of 



Electro Silver Plated Table Ware 



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Factory and Salesroom, Winthrop Street, 

^^m— TAUNTON, MASS. 



PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 



ARROWWANNA MILLS. 



Palmer's Patent Canopies. 




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PALMER'S 

PATENT THREAD 



Window Screen.! 



Cloth, 

More Durable than Wire. 





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pj^^pPH pl ain o r Decorated, 

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. Wsm^lllj^ Piano J9acks 

'"USfe AND — 



The Most luxur 
ous and practical 





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HAMMOCK, 



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Several decrees have already been taken against infringers of this Hammock without the pillow. Beware of all woven Ham- 
mocks except those stamped "Palmer's Patent." None but the trade supplied. 

Manufacturer ot Cotton Tissues, Crinoline Linings,Mosquito Netting, Window Screen Cloth, Hammocks, 
Canopies and Canopy Fixtures, School Bags, Self Adjusting Pulleys, Etc. 

IlVniIDIDIIl.IETO'WIISr, : : : : COUSTHS!". 



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GrlvKIVATS^OOD 

Ranges, Furnaces, 

AND -- 

PARLOR STOVES. 

Sought for by those who desire the best. 







That the public may know the reputation made by the Glenwood was sustained by the Judges of 
the Great Mechanics Fair held in Boston, '87, we print the following letter : 



Boston, January 9, 18SS. 
To the Weir Stove Co., Taunton, Mass. 

Gentlemen : — It gives me great pleasure to say that the Board of Judges unanimously 
recommended to the Massachusetts Mechanics' Charitable Association, that you be awarded a 
GOLD MEDAL, for your exhibit; points being a General Excellence of Work, and the Taste 
shown in your Designs, and your company was the only one for whom the Judges recommended 
a GOLD MEDAL. This Medal, so far as I am aware, is the only one ever recommended by 
the Board of Judges for this Association, exclusively for an exhibition of Heating and Cooking 
Stoves. Verv truly yours, 

A C. P , 

Chairman of Board of Judges. 



SOLD BY LEADING DEALERS EVERYWHERE, 



Weir Stove Co., 



TAUNTON, MASS. 



PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 




Prospect 



HOUSE. 



]u tie 1st to October 1st. 

Under its former satisfac- 
tory management. 

Teems Reasonable. 

Special Inducements to Families. 

Elevation 1,125 feet. Good 
irainage, fine views and 
Irives make it desirable 
or tourists and Summer 
Joarders. Stable con- 

nected. 



W. C. DAVIS, 



PROPRIETOR. 



PEIITCETON". 



One of the most accessible and charming Mountain Resorts, not only in New England but 
in the whole country, is Princeton. The region of country known by this name is near the 
geographical centre of the State of Massachusetts, and in its limits is the grand old peak » 
Mount Wachusett, the crowning eminence of a belt of hills that extend across the State from 
north to south. It towers above the neighboring elevations and the surrounding country from 
1,500 to 2,000 feet, while it is 2,480 feet above the sea level, and affords rare advantages in cli- 
mate, scenery and healthfulness. Half way up the southern slope of the mountain, standing out 
on a projecting spur like a promontory, is the village of Princeton, and the chief hotels are all 
situated in the neighborhood. The Worcester division of the Fitchburg railroad runs through 
the town, five trains a day passing each way, and stages run from the station to the village 
and hotels, two miles or more away up the mountain roads, along which, as the tourist is 
whirled, delightful views of the mountain scenery are obtained. The view from the summit of the 
mountain extends over portions of the six New England States. It is claimed three hundred cities 
and villages can be distinguished, and the whole is a grand panorama of hills and valleys, forests 
and lakes. The elevation ensures clear air, free from fogs and mosquitoes, and in the hottest 
weather there is always a breeze. Princeton is 16 miles from Worcester and 47 from Boston. 



FOR THE 

Support of Varicose Veins, Sprains, Weak Joints, Etc. 

We call attention to our Elastic Hose, as of the very best quality, and consequently like- 
v to prove durable and satisfacto-y. Purchasers are cautioned against inferior qualities 
f Elastic Ho?e, in which American or deteriorated English Rubber is used, interwoven or 
idulterated with shoddy silk. In our Hose none but freshest English Rubber is used, com- 
bined with a warp of new, unmixed, highest grade Silk or Cotton, respectively as de- 
scribed. , , ... , 
Our prices will be found as low as consistent with the quality ot the goods. 
{^"Send for Circular with Prices, directions for Measuring, etc. 
When writing please mention this paper. 

ooiDivii-A-isr 8c s:nrcr:R,T:E_.:E:jT:E\ 

Makers and Importers of Superior Surgical Instruments, 

13 & 15 TREMONT STREET, BOSTON. 




PICTURESQUE NARRAGANSETT. 



F. B. SI55ITH, 

SANITARY PLUMBER, 

AO 

GAS FITTER. 



Tin Roofing 



Jobbing 



and all kinds of Tin Work. 



Promptly Attended to. 



Furnace Work a Specialty, 



Agent for the Palace Queen Furnace, 
one of the best in the market. 

A large assortment of Kitchen Furnish- 
ing Goods always in stock. 

Jh\ B. SMITH, 

393 High Street, ■ ■ Providence. 

TELEPHONE 324-4. 



THE GREATEST BARGAINS YET! 



Solid Gold Full Jeweled 
Watches for $15.00. 

AMERICAN HUNTING CASE STEM WINDERS, 

From. $i8 to, $100. 

Gents' Gold Watches from $15 to $300. 

We have as Large and Complete a Stock of Ladies' and 
Gents' Gold and Silver Watches as ever shown in this city. 

A Good Waltham Watch for $5, and Warranted One Year. 
J. A. ANGELL, 




CORSICAN B UTTER 



ill cure the most aggravated 
of 

If used according to directions. 

Also, a splendid dressing for 
Flesh Wounds, Sore Breasts, 
Scalds, Itch, Ulcers, Flf.» 
Bites, Etc. 

Directions :— Just before retiring, bathe the affected parts in 
water as hot as can be borne for ten minutes, dry them well and 
anoint thoroughly, both internally and externally, with Corsican 
Butter. Then lying on the leftside, carefully endeavor to place 
Dack the swoolen and protruding parts. The Corsican Butterto be 
used once during the day, or spread upon the folds of soft linen 
and held in place by a bandage. Keep the bowels regular with 
mild laxatives. Never allow the bowels to become constipated. 

DR. SIMPSON'S PILIvS, 

A perfect Bowel Regulator, to be used with Corsican Butter. 

Price of each by mail. 2."> cents per box. 

J. F. OATES, No. 320 Broad Street, Providence, R. I. 



DANIEL D. WATERMAN, 

NOTARY PUBLIC, 



TOWN HALL, 



Cranston, R. I, 



271 Westminster Street. 

WILLIS & NEWCOMB 

(Successors to J. L. WEBSTER,) 

Hosiers and (plovers. 



FAMOUS "STAR BRAND" UNDERWEAR. 

PAJAMAS MADE TO ORDER. 

FLANNEL SUITS AND TENNIS OUTFITS. 

SPECIAL IMPORTED NECKWEAR. 

271 Westminster Street. 



HIGGINS & GIFFOSD, 



BUILD TO ORDEE 



Yachts, Sail, Yawl, Row, 

SEME, ADD EXCELSIOR UEE BOATS. 



Builders of yachts Truedette. Siva, Voga, Etta, May, 
and many others. Ocean Dory. Centennial, Nautilus, 
Little Western and Bark Secret. 

Send for Catalogue. 



Agents Wanted for the 

Life of Gen. Phil. Sheridan , 

and the 

Lives of Harrison and Morton. 

J. A. & R. A. Reid, Publishers, 

24 Custom House S t., 

Providence, R. I. 



NATIONAL 

ACORN RANGES. 



warn 



Cannot be surpassed for Economy in Fuel, Neatness 
of Design. Their Large Flues, Ventilated Oven, Large 
Ash Pan, and all the modern improvements that go to 
make it the most desirable Range in existence. We 
are sole agents for Providence. 

A.J.MACOON&SON, 

216 and 218 Broad Street 
Opposite Snow Street. Providence, R. I. 



zpiROvziDiEirsraiE] 




& 

Bosip College. 

283 Westminster Street. 



College Year Opens September 10th. 

Full Business Course with Complete 

Penmanship, Short-Hand, Type 

Writing, and Elocution 

Departments. 

Address for New Catalogue, 

T. B. STOWELL, 

PRINCIPAL. 



E8TABLI8HED 1793. 



Incorporated 1865. 



Fletcher Manufacturing Co., 



Manufacturers of Small Wares, 

BOOT, SHOE AND CORSET LACES. 

STOVE WICKS AND LAMP WICKS 

Of All Siasea, in. Rolls, or Cut into Standard Lsngthe. 

Torch Wicks and Fusee Wicks. Special Wicks to Order. Star, 
Clace, Plain Braids, Bobbins, Etc. 

Yarns from No. 16 to 60, in Skeins, on Spools, or Bins Tied. Harness and Seine Twines, 
Wrapping Twine. Braided and Twisted Spindle Banding. 

WILLIAM B. FLETCHER, Pres't. JOHN S. ORMSBEE, Treas. WILLIAM AMES, Sec'y and Agent. 



FACTORIES, PROVIDENCE, R. I. 



WAREHOUSE*, 



IS and SO Thomas Street, New York, 
119 Franklin Street, Boston, 



W. B. Fletcher, Agent. 
- S. CS. Trippe, Agent. 



/ 
Dwelling-House Insurance. Franklin Mutual Fire Insurance Company. 

12 SOUTH MAIN STREET, cor. COK.LEUE STREET. Amos M. Bowen, Pres't. John K. Wheaton, SeCy. 

OCEAN VOYAGES SOUTH 

BY THE 

M. & M. T. CO.'S 

Providence, Norfolk and Baltimore S.S. Line. 

The most desirable Water Routs from New England, for Norfolk, Newport News, Fort Monroe, W»st 
Point, and Richmond, Va., Washington, D. C, and Baltimore, Md. Distance, round trip, Twdre Hundred 
Mile*, of delightful, health restoring, sea air sailing. By the fir3t-class passenger steamships Wm. Lawrence, 
Capt. M. W. Snow, soiling every Wednesday, and Geo. Appold, Capt. Wm. Field, every Saturday. Hours of de- 
parture from Providence, 6 P. M. Fares, Including room and meals, very low. 

iEVreijEtLt Connections 



made without drayage with the following routes : Virginia and Tennessee Air Line, at Norfolk, Va. Atlanti 
Coast and Seaboard Air Lines, at Norfolk, Va. Chesapeake and Ohio R. R. and Kanawha Dispatch, at Newport 
News, Va. Richmond and Danville R. R. and Piedmont Air Line, at West Point, Va. Baltimore and Ohio 



R. R. and Continental Line, at Baltimore, Md. Merchants' and Miners' Trans. Co.'s Savannah Line, at Balti- 
more, Md. Through bill of lading issued via all above named routes. Mark goods via P., N. & B. Line. 

Ticket* on sale at B. G. WINNOR'S ofllce, 8 WeatMinater St., W. H. CHURCH Jfe CO., 
office I Weybouet St., or at ttteamr.laip office, 99 India Street. 

For Rates, Passage, or Freight, apply to 

E. H. ROGKWE12L2, Agent, 

LONSDALE WHARF. PROVIDENCE, R. I. 

SHIPMAN' <S ~~ 

Carbolic Ointment. 

HEALING AND PURIFYING. 

For Piles, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Burns, Wounds, Etc., it is unexcelled. FEVER SORES and 
SCROFULA SORES are soon changed into a HEALING CONDITION and frequently entirely 
cured by its use. 

A box of Shipman's Ointment should always be kept in the house. 

It is equally good for Horses, Cattle, and animals of all kinds. 

No fly will bother a sore when Shipman'6 Ointment is used. Price 25c, 50c, $1.00 per box. 

For sale by Druggists. If your Druggist does not keep it in stock a sample box will be sent J 
by mail upon receipt of 25 cents. 

GEO. L. CLAFLIN & CO., Proprietors, Providence, R. I. 



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DR. BICKNELL'S SYRUP, 

FOR DIARRHCEA, DYSENTERY, CHOLERA MORBUS, COLIC, CRAMPS, AND 
ALL BOWEL OR SUMMER COMPLAINTS. 

It Contains ixo 0;pivutri, 

Or anything injurious, and can be given with perfect safety to young children as well as 
adults. All Druggists keep it for sale, or you can procure it of the Agents. 

GEO. L. CLAFLIN k CO, Wholesale and Retail Druggists, 

PROVIDENCE, R. I. — r ^~™Q?f*V 



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t f WHITTE1T <fe OO. 

! I Bicycles, Tricycles, Velocipedes, Baseball, Tennis & Athletic Goods 

f 118 8. main St., Prorideace, B, I. Inf nuirr Building. 




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